Kenneth Steven
Home address:
18 Cathedral Street, Dunkeld, PH8 0AW, ScotlandTelephone:
01350 727 359Email:
info@kennethsteven.co.ukWebsite:
www.books-of-imagination.comBRAW network:
yesLL funded:
yesPublisher:
ArgyllBiography:
Kenneth Steven is a poet, children's author and writer of both full-length and short fiction. He's also well known as a translator from the Scandinavian languages, particularly Norwegian. He's first and foremost a poet; seven of his collections have been published to date and a volume of selected poems appeared in December of 2007 from Peterloo. He's published a number of picture books and a first novel, The Santa Maria, for children, and three novels concerning the land comprise A Highland Trilogy.
About writer's work:
Almost all of my writing, whether poetry or prose, takes its inspiration from the land. It's this umbilical between people and the land - especially remote places - which has fascinated me from the beginning. Elements of history and local tradition, the Gaelic language, Celtic Christianity - all these and more are woven through my writing, often in order to ask questions of Scottish identity and culture today.
About writer's events and projects:
First and foremost, poetry readings - often undertaken in conjunction with musicians. Talks and workshops on the whole writing process, from beginners' sessions to masterclasses. Storytelling, readings and imagination workshops for all primary school classes; talks on writing and readings for small groups of upper senior school students. Intensive weeks in schools as writer in residence.
Language:
EnglishAge groups:
0-4, 5-8, 9-12, AdultsBooks written
A collection of new poems about the natural world - both rural and urban - with underlying themes of responsibility for the world around us and wonder at creation. The poems are varied in style - ...
This is an exciting story about a boy and a dragon set in China long ago. Chang and his father live in a small village. Chang's father is a kite maker and Chang spends long days helping him. In the ...
During the Church of Scotland's Year of the Child, we discovered that although children love the Lord's Prayer, they don't necessarily know what it means.
Using sensitively crafted verses by Kenneth ...
A Tale of treasure form the Hebrides. A Hebridean boy lives with his grandfather. All his life he has heard whispers of a Spanish galleon that is supposed to have gone down off the island's coast ...
It is winter, and in the dark night snow is falling soft as petals. Woken by their mother, two young sea mice stand on their boat and gaze at a sky sparkling with falling stars. These stars are ...
A long time ago, before the first white man set foot in the New World, an Indian girl called Lalita awoke from a frightening dream. Her dream became reality as she watched her beloved trees being cut ...
