
Doing the unexpected
Shall I employ a new procedure, yes? An alabaster nucleus of hope that swims and hoists, beginning long returns and catching you in...

Berrylands
For Kingston — I build near Berrylands. Up go the composites. New moons and sunrises. They stir in containers.

Clearings in the wood
Hi All, I wrote this eco poem over a period of a few months & I'm pleased to say that Strider Marcus Jones has published on the...

Awash
Awash (Rev 21) there was no longer any sea but the world was no longer dry we stood just beyond the fringes the place where futures start...

Land of silver
It’s here! https://laninfaeco.com/en/2022/07/29/land-of-silver/ Enjoy! Stephen 😊

Aricept (has to do something) please
I have worked in the Alzheimer's drug discovery space and there is a pressing need for new treatment strategies here. I wrote this...

Pinch of pepper
I am thrilled to see one of poems feature in this anthology: https://hybriddreich.co.uk/the-joy-of-living/ Here is the poem: Pinch of...

For carbon
an atom like no other between soft rock and a hard carbon form, we applaud its deft touches and its vital essence. We cheer the normal...

Mes filles et Moi
We are turtle doves, standing on the Arc. We can hear clocks, spun from the Sacred Heart. We see the lattice, an iron arrow. We fleck the...

Stannous
One of my responses to recent events: Stannous That heart is not sturdy It is mannose on a hot plate, burning with plain madness That...

Adhesive
The lifted smiles blown out of you. The burning bore, guilty and sore. The new tightness, as old as Hell. The brave faces, new, and...

Emergence of alcohols
My new poem has appeared in Consilience! Thanks guys.... https://www.consilience-journal.com/issue-9-emergence-of-alcohols Stephen

Low pH
[A tautogram is an extreme form of alliteration in which all of the words in a sentence or phrase begin with the same letter]. pH 0.8...

Welter of wood
Shakespeare referred to talking trees in As You Like It, where there are 'tongues in trees' (II. 1.16) - Between soils and skies, trees...

Rosin
More abecedarian fun! - a resin from pines brittle at home with chairs and cool contexts dear mix of acids ease into varnish faint pine...

Wombwell Rainbow interview
Paul Brookes interviewed me! https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2022/06/09/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-stephen-paul-wren/

Preoccupation
Daddy long legs, press on ahead now. Skip. Made of sheets, rice ones with free, spitfire wings. Here comes light, roaring with young...

Open mic reading 30.05.22
I loved reading my poems ‘backbone’, ‘chaparrals of evergreen’, and ‘the stagnasomes’ at Kathleen McPhilemy‘s Oxford Stanza meeting this...