Adam Steiner writes books, poetry, and journalism based in London and Coventry

Writing articles, essays and reviews for The Literary Consultancy, The Quietus, 3:AM, Louder Than War, The Author magazine, Mercurius journal, Headstuff, Hong Kong Review of Books, and Nothing In The Rulebook.

Silhouettes And Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (2023)

Exploring the secret history of David Bowie’s 1980 album —an avant-garde pop album rich with tension and fear which closed Bowie’s golden years of the 1970s.

Darker With The Dawn: Nick Cave’s Songs Of Love And Loss

This book uncovers the stories behind Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ most well-known songs from “Tupelo,” “The Mercy Seat,” “Red Right Hand,” “Stagger Lee,” and “Into My Arms,” to “Higgs Boson Blues” and beyond. Darker With The Dawn explores Nick Cave’s life in music, drawing upon his inspirations from the Bible, Greek myth, and literature, as well as his enduring passion for gospel, the blues, and progressive rock.

Into The Never: Nine Inch Nails And The Creation Of The Downward Spiral

Into The Never tells the story behind The Downward Spiral, a seminal album which ushered in a new era of confessional music that explored trauma, depression, and self-loathing and changed popular music forever. 

I have written one novel – Politics of The Asylum [2018]  it deals with the state of decline within the NHS as it is slowly destroyed by the Government and death of affect takes hold.

I have lectured on Creative Writing and Publishing at Coventry University and worked in schools with White Water Writers, The Complete Works (TCW), and Eastside Educational Trust.

I currently volunteer for Read Easy supporting adults and young people learning to read

I mentor through Arts Emergency – supporting young people to get access into creative industries.

In 2017 I produced the Disappear Here project – 27 x collaborative poetry-films about Coventry Ringroad.

My poetry and fiction appear in Rockland Lit, Proletarian Poetry, The Next Review, Fractured Nuance zine, BoscRev: 4, The Weary Blues, The Stare’s Nest, ShoutOut UK, 3:AM, The Cadaverine, Spontaneity, Abridged 0-13, The Literateur, Nostrovia! SquawkBack, NOUS. Anthologies: Interpal – Palestine Verses, Fugue 1 (Siren Press), Poems Underwater, Stepaway – Voicewalks (Durham University). I was selected for the 2014 Ó Bhéal Coventry-Cork Twin Cities Poetry Exchange and was part of the Coventry SHOOT Festival, 2014. He is former Editor of Here Comes Everyone magazine.

For all enquiries: contact@adamsteiner.uk

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