Compassionate, unflinching, and musically precise, Steve Logan’s poems give voice to lives too often overlooked. He pays homage to the soul’s endurance, and makes ordinary lives unforgettable. Inside Stories offers us a quiet blaze of compassion: poems that sing with truth.

-Kate Rhodes, novelist and poet

Slipping between the observer and the observed, these poems are portraits where the painter seeks the subject’s ‘soul’. We view apparitions through a verbal mist, then, as if illumined by a shaft of sunlight, the subject comes alive with a vivid image or a striking turn of phrase.

Steve Logan’s concern is our relationship with our spiritual nature. But predominantly his thoughts stay nearer home: his South Wales upbringing, the people he knew then and now, and the twists and turns that made him the accomplished ‘song-poet’ he is today.

-Philip Ward, author and critic