Author Description

Steve Day is a contemporary poet with a jazz background. It's been said that his writing has echoes of T.S. Eliot as well as the 'Beat' generation of Kerouac and Kaufman. The poems that make up The Edge Of England reach beyond literary comparisons into a world where "saxophones send references...." Jazz is rarely the subject but his words are improvised harmony honed into assertive composition. The result is bitter-sweet secular confessions, written in a language on the margins. In that sense The Edge Of England is a global frontier.