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Michael StevenMichael Steven

Michael Steven is the author of Walking to Jutland Street, a collection of poems published by Otago University Press in 2018. He has worked as an electrician, a stage manager and a bookstore clerk, and lives in West Auckland with his partner and son. Michael was born in Auckland in 1977.

The Friday Poem: ‘Neilson Street’ by Michael Steven

13 April 2018 by Michael Steven

New verse by West Auckland writer Michael Steven.   Neilson Street   Nearly always it is still dark when he threads the chain of the roller door through his hands, and as that steel door shudders and shrieks   as it rolls up, he will most certainly be wearing his red waist-cut woollen Swanndri, the … Read more

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