to the website of Jonathan Steffen.

For Jonathan, writing a poem or a song is like creating a room for the mind. “It’s a place you can go to explore things from new angles.”

Rilke once said that the task of the poet was not to have experiences but to be an experience.”That’s what I attempt to do in my own way with the rooms I build for other people’s minds – and perhaps their hearts as well.”

Here you will find examples of Jonathan’s work in various genres, a new blog, an online shop, and updates about Jonathan’s activities as a writer and musician.

We hope you will enjoy your visit.

Time, Place and Travel

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My thanks go once more to Claire Trévien for inviting me to participate in the ‘Mapping Poetry’ event of 30 April. I took the chance to read a small handful of my own poems that deal broadly with the themes of time, place and travel.

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The Prison of Style

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Mucha became more than a well-known artist: he became a category in his own right.

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Jonathan Steffen to read at ‘Mapping Poetry’, Beaconsfield, 30 April

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Jonathan will be participating in the ‘Mapping Poetry’ reading at The Jolly Cricketers, 24 Chalfont Road, Seer Green, Buckinghamshire, HP9 2YG, at 7:00 p.m. on Monday 30 April.

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Jonathan Steffen reads winning poems in “After the Wedding” Competition

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In the summer of last year, I was invited to judge the Slough Writers’ 2011 Poetry Competition. Taking as its theme “After the Wedding”, this competition generated a very strong field of entries.

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Short Story: Old Boy Thierack is available on Kindle

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A passionate anglophile, Thierack volunteers for the German army at the outbreak of the First World War. His aim is to create a ground-breaking academic study of the speech patterns of the British Isles …

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The Fragrance of the Unread Poem

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“The orchids grow in the woods and they let out their fragrance even if there is no-one to appreciate it,” said Confucius. That does not mean that the fragrance does not exist.

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Falcon Editions Rebrands

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Eight years after its original creation, the Falcon Editions corporate identity has been redeveloped. The new corporate identity comprises the name Falcon Editions in a Renaissance-inspired calligraphic script flanked by a red and a green box.

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The Search for the Great Albino available on Kindle

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Previously published by the Heidelberg Review and Beat Magazine, The Search for the Great Albino recounts the rivalry of two 19th-century botanists bent on discovering a famously obscure species of orchid.

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Jonathan’s short story The Panama Hat is now available on Kindle.

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Originally published by the London Magazine under the editorship of Alan Ross, The Panama Hat is a story about the relationship between art and love.

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Jonathan Steffen on BBC Radio Berkshire

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Jonathan will be Sarah Walker’s guest on BBC Radio Berkshire as part of the station’s series on inspiring local figures.

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