This is true prose poetry and it took me almost as long to read as a full length novel, it is so dense and poetic. Kenneth Steven has a genius for the perfect phrase – there is absolutely no fat on this story’s bones, every single word serves a purpose and each is perfect in its place.

5* review on goodreads

If you loved and were inspired by The Shack, then expect the same feelings from The Well of the North Wind. With poignant lines such as "‘When do you find God?’ He whispered ‘when in doubt?’ The answer came back at once, as fast as an echo ‘in the small things. In the voice of a child, in the curl of an otter, in the single moment of light on a day in the storm’" it is difficult not to feel moved.

eden.co.uk

[On Letting in the Light] A gentle light from an unseen source pours into the distilling simplicity of these poems

- Mark Oakley, Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral,

[On Evensong] This collection of poems by Kenneth Steven is stunning. There is a grave beauty in these lines, revealing a poetic voice of great sensitivity. These poems are, quite simply, wonderful.

- Alexander McCall Smith,

Enjoying [Kenneth Steven’s Columba Poems] intensely – style and subject.

- Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate 1984-98,

each topic is dealt with so delicately that it perfectly fits in with the flow of the book

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