JONATHAN STEFFEN FEATURED ARTIST ON IM RADIO
A very big thank you to Paddy Noonan, Founder of IM Radio,');
document.writeln('for selecting me as a Featured Artist. To hear my songs, please visit
TWO POEMS IN FIRST SIXTY: THE ACUMEN ANTHOLOGY
My thanks go to Patricia Oxley for reprinting two of my poems,');
document.writeln('Apprentice and Master and Caveat in the anthology recently');
document.writeln('published to celebrate the first 25 years of Acumen Magazine.');
document.writeln('Congratulations on all you have achieved so far, Patricia, and may Acumen');
document.writeln('continue to go from strength to strength!
FIRST SIXTY: THE ACUMEN ANTHOLOGY ISBN: 978 –');
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SINGER-SONGWRITER JENNY BORRETT SETS THE FALCON TO THE FALCONER');
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York-based singer-songwriter Jenny Borrett has set my poem The');
document.writeln('Falcon to the Falconer to music. Her performance of this piece may be found');
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My');
document.writeln('thanks go to Jenny for her interest in my work and for her beautiful melody.
This');
document.writeln('piece is also appearing in an alternative setting by the duo Amalthea on their');
document.writeln('new album, which is currently in preparation. My thanks go likewise Helen');
document.writeln('Andrews and Deborah Peake of Amalthea for their kind interest in this poem.');
document.writeln('Amalthea’s website is:
TORBAY POETRY FESTIVAL
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document.writeln('I was very sorry to have to cancel my participation in Torbay Poetry Festival');
document.writeln('at such short notice this year. Unfortunately I was taken ill with flu and unable');
document.writeln('to travel or perform. I hope very much to have the opportunity to make up for');
document.writeln('this another year.
NEW TRAKL AND RILKE TRANSLATIONS IN ACUMEN
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document.writeln('Issue 65 (September 2009, ISSN: 0964-0304) of Acumen carries my');
document.writeln('translations of In the Winter by Georg Trakl and Piano Practice');
document.writeln('by Rainer Maria Rilke. My thanks to editor Patricia Oxley for publishing these');
document.writeln('two pieces.
NEW MASCHA KALÉKO TRANSLATIONS IN ENVOI
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document.writeln('Issue 153 (June 09, ISSN: 0013-9394) of Envoi carries my translations of');
document.writeln('two poems by Mascha Kaléko: Re: First Snow and In a Strange');
document.writeln('Town. My thanks to editor Jan Fortune-Wood for publishing these two pieces.
THE FALCON TO THE FALCONER INCORPORATED IN MARYLAND');
document.writeln('HIGH SCHOOL ASSESSMENTS
Educational Testing Service, a company that is not for profit, in');
document.writeln('conjunction with Maryland State Department of Education, has decided to include');
document.writeln('my poem The Falcon to the Falconer in the Maryland School Assessments, a');
document.writeln('series of customised tests for Maryland students, for ten years with effect');
document.writeln('from 2010. My thanks go to Educational Testing Service and Maryland State');
document.writeln('Department of Education for giving this poem a wider audience in this manner.
SPECIAL EDITION OF THE PANAMA HAT NOW AVAILABLE
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document.writeln('A special edition of my short story The Panama Hat is now available from');
document.writeln('Falcon Editions. This story was originally published by The London Magazine');
document.writeln('(August/September 1993). The front cover photograph and the opening paragraph');
document.writeln('appear in the ‘Photos’ section of this website.
To order a copy, please send a cheque for Ł3.00 made payable to');
document.writeln('Falcon Editions Ltd to Jonathan Steffen, Falcon Editions Ltd, Larchmont');
document.writeln('Office, Wych Hill Rise, Woking, Surrey GU22 0ES, England. Please provide your');
document.writeln('full postal address. If you are writing from overseas, please include a');
document.writeln('banknote for USD 5.00 or EUR 5.00.