Roger stevens poet biography

Roger Stevens is a musician, author and poet. He lives in England, where he visits schools and festivals performing and running poetry workshops.

He is a National Poetry Day Ambassador, a founding member of the Able Writers scheme and runs the award-winning website www.poetryzone.co.uk for children and teachers, which has just celebrated its 20th anniversary.

He has published around forty books.

His Apes to Zebras– an A to Z of shape poems (Bloomsbury) won the prestigious NSTB award.

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Other recent publications include I Am a Jigsaw, puzzling poems to baffle your brain (Bloomsbury); Moonstruck, an anthology to commemorate the moon landing(Otter-Barry);and Be the Change, poems about sustainability (Macmillan).

Roger also writes poetry for adults.

As a singer-song writer he performs with guitar, mainly in folk clubs, and has played keyboards in several well-known rock bands. Recent solo albums include I Don’t Wish to Alarm You But, The Posi