Sahara Rain

Liquid Amber Press, Sept 2026

These poems turn around spaces left behind – beaches slipping into seas, cities altered by war, the lacunae of memory. They dwell in the pause before reckoning,, in subtle movements of change. At once intimate and expansive, this collection asks what home means when the world itself is unsettled, and how we might listen again to the voices of earth, of lost loves and the quiet objects that share our endurance.

Jane Frank

Stephanie Green’s poems combine passionate concern with tender examination of the ‘erosions’ of environment, war and relationships. Landscape grounds these poems, from ‘the mineral taste’ of the Sahara, to Norway and Antarctica. Limpid imagery and unsettling questions create vulnerable poems, celebrating the ‘green flames of the living world.’ These poems will provoke you, move you and change you. Savour them.

Cathy Altmann

Seams of Repair

Calanthe Press, 2023

[I]t’s not too surprising that so much recent literature has been centered around themes of loss, grieving, and healing. Seams of Repair would seem to be part of this tendency, and its title (as well as its cover) points to the power of restoration, where the mending of breakage is reliant on the strength of its craft. It is a work which gently yet repeatedly reminds us that such artfulness is also re-pairing: a joining of two distinct entities, whether they be the parent with child, the lover with the absent partner, or even the author with the necessary reader….

[W]e are offered insights which can cause us to re-cognise what we have failed to notice and appreciate in our own lives, and maybe even where we might have been remiss in our love, and the expression of that love. At the same time, loss can also create a dearth of feeling – or alternatively, a feeling so large it can only be one thing: “You feel nothing now, except the touch of time.” – ‘First Night’. With aching frankness and humility, we are often shown the melancholy, frustration, and lucidity that occurs when the memory of a loved one insists on returning….

Yet the gravity of grief is lightened at times by a subtle, knowing levity in pieces such as ‘Romans’ (a homage to Anita Loos), ‘They Won’t be Quiet’ (in which ‘marvellous crones grin into mirrors of unmaking’), and ‘Oysters’, with its gentle mockery of male oral bluster and sexual inclinations….

For me, [the] understated cries are the dark yet luminous gold threads of kintsukuroi (referred to in the ‘Foreword’ and the opening poem) which bind the individual poems, as well as highlighting and strengthening the beauty of the whole work.

Matt Hetherington

Breathing in Stormy Seasons

Recent Work Press, 2019

[Green’s] ‘moments of poetry’ are snapshots of existentialist joy and angst, alluding to a vast store of theoretical and practical goods.

[Her] usual strategy is to write a paragraph… which describe a moment of connection between the human and non-human world, often located in a place of scenic beauty; or to focus on a moment of intimacy between (usually) two personas (often) on a journey together, or located in their domestic routines. Her final sentence will then move from the concrete scene to the crystallization of a transcendent insight (often involving joy, sadness, loss, or wonder). Her prose displays a wonderful ear for conversational rhythms and alliterations, and she is deft in her use of imagism.

Phillip Hall