Steve Armstrong lives in Newcastle, New South Wales, and writes poetry when he’s not working as a social worker/therapist.
Newcastle Poetry Prize in 2014 and 2019. He’s been shortlisted for the Ron Pretty Prize (twice), and the Australian Catholic University Poetry Prize.What’s Left picks up where Steve’s 2018 collection Broken Ground left off, and further explores what it means to walk with the natural world.
“For me, Steve’s poetry attends to what Burnside describes as ‘a new science of belonging’ — one that, in his words, puts us ‘back in the open’, seeks ‘to make us both vulnerable and wondrous again — to reconnect us’ with the earth.
What’s Left is charged with that ecological imperative to dwell in and with the rest of the world in a new way.”
Dimitra Harvey from her launch speech for What’s Left. You can read Dimitra’s full launch speech (which is highly recommended) on my website stevearmstrong-poesis.com
