Stevie Ronnie is currently one year into a part-time MA in creative writing at the University of Newcastle.  
He writes mainly poetry but the odd short story has been known to come out from time to time.  
Stevie has poems forthcoming in 'Iota' and 'Alliterati' and has read his work at venues in Newcastle 
(most recently at The Blue Room).  

A selection of his poems will also appear in the anthology "Three Trick Pony" which is due to be published 
by Newcastle University in July 2006.

 

Learning To Argue

The day we walk away
back to her mother’s,
she takes a black bin bag
full of my teddy bears.

He finds us in ‘The Plough’
eating fish fingers and peas,
from a child’s plate.
We walk home together.

I unpack my koala, my martian,
return them to my chest.



After Summer Rain

The streets are drowned,
we stand under
a tram shelter

wetter than fish
our arms trace fins
our mouths are gills

we smell the heat
from the concrete earth
as you tell me of her death.



The Archaeologists Of The Future

We find you everywhere
mummified in lava
your faces are in our pets.

We dress in chemical suits
peel back the surface
to touch your rotten homes.

We see poverty in bottles,
study the social uses
of Mars, of Galaxy.

We probe the shafts
of bore-holes, where
we’d expect to strike oil.

We dig up fossilised
pigeons strangled
in plastic nets,

consider bizarre mating rituals,
what it is like to have no feathers.