CD Description
St. Francis in the Slaughter-House is a CD recording of thirty poems by Jonathan Steffen, recited by the poet. The collection includes The Falcon to the Falconer and many other poems which have previously appeared in anthologies or literary magazines. The CD is accompanied by a booklet containing the full text of all the poems.
About the Artist
Jonathan Steffen is a writer and musician. He was born in London and read English at Cambridge, where he won the Kings College James Prize and the Cambridge University T.R. Henn Prize, both for creative writing. On graduating, he received a Harper-Wood Travelling Studentship for English Poetry and Literature, awarded by St. Johns College, Cambridge. In 1987 he was the beneficiary of a Hawthornden Fellowship for Creative Writing. His poems, short stories, book reviews, articles and translations have appeared in a wide range of anthologies and magazines, including Acumen, The London Magazine, The Spectator, the New Statesman & Society, Signals (Volumes 1 & 3), Firebird (Volumes 1 & 4), BABEL, Outposts, Orbis and Poem for the Day (Volume 1). His work has also featured on BBC Radio 4s Poetry Please and on BBC Southern Counties Radio. He has additionally published translations of novels and academic works from both the German and the French. Jonathan also writes and performs his own songs, and plays the guitar and the mandolin. He has released a CD of his own material, The Road in Our Feet, in arrangements by Roland Gallery. For more information, please visit www.falconeditions.com.