Steven's poems have appeared in some 200 literary outlets worldwide an included in around 80 anthologies. For ten years he has been a prizewinner in the Scottish International Open Poetry Competition and one of his poems was nominated for the Forward Poetry Prize. A number of his poems have been broadcast over the years on BBC Radio Scotland.

Abroad, poems have been published in the States, Canada, Australia, India and Norway. All of the top Australian journals have taken pieces: The Sydney Morning Herald, Westerly, Imago and Northern Perspective. In Canada Poems have appeared in Queen's Quartely, Quarry, The New Quarterly and the Fiddlehead.

In Britain, poems have appeared in Outposts Poetry Quartely, Poetry Review, Chapman, Poetry Wales and New Welsh Review. It was discovered by The Guardian two years ago that Steven was among the five most published poets in Britain.

Remembering Peter
The National Poetry Foundation, 1993
This collection remembers cousin Peter, for his kindness and laughter, and for all the walks in the chestnuts woods. Includes The Heron

The Heron
The heron is a presbyterian minister
Standing gloomy in the long grey coat
Looking at his own reflection in a Sabbath loch.

Every now and again, pronouncing fire and brimstone
He snatches at an unsuspecting trout
And stands with a lump in his throat.

The congregation of midges laughs at him in Gaelic
He only prays for them, head bent into grey rain
As a lark sings psalms half a mile above.

The Missing Days
Scottish Cultural Press, 1995

Splinters
Saint Andrews Press, 1997

The Pearl Fisher
National Poetry Foundation, 1997

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