Steve Logan

Steve Logan is a rock musician and poet from South Wales. He has held appointments in English literature at the universities of Oxford, Cardiff and Cambridge, has written for many national newspapers and magazines and works also as a psychotherapist.

Steve sees music and poetry as aspects of each other. Words on a page and sounds in the air can used to symbolise states of feeling. In songs words and music coalesce. In poems they yearn for each other.

Steve's previous poetry book is Heartlands (2024) a homage to the valleys culture he grew up in, financially poor but in other ways rich. He believes that cultures educate more deeply than colleges. Inside Stories (2026) aims to show that imagination is a lens not a mirror. We are ourselves inescapably present in the way we imagine others.

Steve's sixth solo album is Psych Ward (2023). It addresses the question of why in the West we are, for all our privilege, so often discontent.

Currently Steve is at work on a new album, a new poetry collection and a memoir.

Details of all Steve's work in music and poetry, and of related gigs, can be found on his website (search 'Steve Logan, musician, Cambridge') where it’s possible to sign up for his regular newsletter.

'Compassionate, unflinching, and musically precise, Steve Logan’s poems give a voice to people 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)

‘A preacher of the fantastic with the soul of a poet’ (Ian D. Hall)