• Steve's debut collection after only 30 million years! A book that connects to a world wide web of wordly possibilities.
  • RELEASE: 1st June 2019
  • A debut collection of poetry and lyrics set out like a choose your adventure novel complete with QR codes and links to online material.

    OWN Steve Larkin gives full access to a breathtaking breadth of poems, songs, and performances from this trailblazing artist through a collection of written word that links to a whole host of digital treats: from video and audio recordings of hilarious gig moments, to animated enhancements of rich poetic expression, to glorious climaxes reached from the front of a gypsy klezmer ska band, all collected and connected like a dungeons and dragons quest.Three decades of work captured in one multimedia extravaganza of a book.

    Want a bit of Steve Larkin?  You can have it all, and in any order you want!
  • 'Your Own Steve Larkin Poetry Adventure' (or 'Own Steve Larkin' for short) is an innovative way to present poetry, connecting the reader to a breathtaking range of styles from thoughtful introspective pieces of writing to comical, musical, or visceral pieces of spoken word or song, and to some visually stimulating pieces of street art or film poetry.

    A debut collection of poetry and lyrics set out like a choose your adventure novel complete with QR codes and links to online material 'Your Own Steve Larkin Poetry Adventure' (or 'Own Steve Larkin' for short) is an innovative way to present poetry, connecting the reader to a breathtaking range of styles from thoughtful introspective pieces of writing to comical, musical, or visceral pieces of spoken word or song, and to some visually stimulating pieces of street art or film poetry.
  • Having been successful with an approach to Arts Council England with a proposal for funding to capture and produce audio and video of performances to create material to link to in the book Steve set out on a process that would take the best part of three years. Firstly he reviewed and edited a lifetime of writing.

    He then sought the opinion of a large group of 'critical friends' such as Carcanet poet Alison Brackenbury, comics/poets Rob Gee, Luke Wright, and Elvis McGonagall, and award- winning feature writer and journalist Tom Parry to establish the value of a large number of pieces on the page or otherwise. Then came the plotting of various routes through the book that Steve envisaged would satisfy people coming to the collection with a variety of outlooks on the presentation of poetry and lyrics.

    • Reviews for OWN Steve Larkin - Poetry Adventure

    “Anarchic, sparklingly brilliant and at times very rude.”
       Hugh Warwick

    “The resurrection of the oral tradition in the technological age is advanced in the capable hands of Steve Larkin”
       Kate Tempest

    "The closest you'll get to being at a brilliant poetry gig - by reading a brilliant poetry book!"
       Rob Auton

    "With this delightful book, we are treated to the many facets of the poetic, comedic and musical beast that is Steve Larkin."
       Rob Gee