The Soul Song Seam
Another song lyric... a tribute to the negro spiritual... [ More ]

Distracted
Dedicated to Stocki's three girls... [ More ]

But...
More like meditations than poems... [ More ]

Tell Yourself
One of a new batch of poems... [ More ]

You Touched your Cheek
A poem on the first anniversary of Lindsay Emerson's passing... [ More ]

Justice Benediction
Stocki was asked to write a benediction for a justice event... [ More ]

Change (in Memory of Leebeth Armon)
A very old poem in tribute to a friend... [ More ]

Underneath the Beauty
A new poem that will appear in the new book Sad...and Beautiful Place a collboration between Stocki and photographer Gordon Ashbridge... [ More ]

Pour out the Cup
A poem for the Eucharist... [ More ]

Girl on the Edge of the Photograph
A poem that Stocki wrote about his good friend Lindsay Emerson who passed away recently... We have added the intro that Lindsay's husband Alain wrote for his blog... [ More ]

The Juggler
A meditation Stocki used tonight in his quiet service with his students... [ More ]

Lonely Day
Far from my best poem this is a Valentine's Card limerick that was inspired by living in a community of students, not all of whom got cards, chocolates or flowers and when you don't it makes it harder living among those who do... Horsey Morgan made a song out of this one too... [ More ]

My Mystery, Her Beauty, and His Holy Ghost
Two Twigs Entwined
The Swing of the Pendulum
Someone requested Stocki's old poetry book My Mystery, Her Beauty and His Holy Ghost... aware that it was no longer available we thought we'd put that right and give them out, poem by poem, over the web page for a few months...

Christmas Meditation
A prayer, a poem and a sermon of revolution... [ More ]

God Was
A poem from Eyes Open, Open Wide ... written when my daughter Jasmine was born thinking of incarnation... [ More ]

Sindy
Sindy is a poem Stocki wrote for World Aids Day about a woman he met in Guguletu in July. Dedicated to all at JL Zwane Church there ... thinking of them even more than usual this weekend ... [ More ]

Relentless (Fracture and Drift)
A poem from Cape Town about looking home and fearing the relentlessness of western culture to bash the desire to change the world... [ More ]

How Do You Do That?
A lyrical psalm written from the side of Table Mountain... [ More ]

Blessed are the Poor
Stocki has taken 2 years to write these poems... you cannot have one without the other... [ More ]

Mandisa's Keys
A poem that Stocki has written for a Habitat For Humnaity commissioning service... it also gives details of how you can support CAPETOWNSHIP 06 which is a project of the Presbyterian Chaplaincy at Queens University, Belfast and Habitat For Humanity... [ More ]

Both
A poem written for my dear friends who became Mr Alain and Mrs Lindsay Emerson on Wednesday June 8th 2005... [ More ]

Love? or Romance? (Thoughts for the Top of the Aisle)
A poem read by Stocki at the wedding of Ricky and Grace Gault, inspired by a line on the new U2 album... [ More ]

Eyes Open ... Open Wide - A Review
Here is John Cheek's review for Wing and A Prayer (The Greenbelt Angel's magazine)of Eyes Open ... Open Wide... [ More ]

Eyes Open ... Open Wide - The Download Single
To give you a flavour of Steve and Gordon's new book here are three poems from it... [ More ]

Eyes Open ... Open Wide - The Interview
With Stocki's collaborative book of poems and photos with Gordon Ashbridge about to be launched, friend of Rhythms Of Redemption Luke McAuley, interviewed Stocki about the project... [ More ]

For God's Sake Give us Some Reality
This is a poem inspired by a year strewn with very harsh realities and Carol Services empty of the reality of that very first Christmas... [ More ]

Nailed (Covered in Blood)
A poem of Easter. I wrote this on Good Friday gazing out to sea as my children played at the waters edge... [ More ]

Empty now the Tomb
The power of Resurrection. Everything is changed... [ More ]

To the Marrow of my Soul
Written for a Peace Vigil organised by the Students Union at Queens University, Belfast and inspired by the words of FW De Klerk who shared with us the lessons of reconciliation... [ More ]

Stop the Spinning Wheel
This poem is inspired by looking back at what happens to us and asking if putting others, whether enemy or not, through the same grief is the way to fix the tragedy or pain or broken world... [ More ]

It has Been a Long Time Coming
Revised from the book Skeletons this is the first in a series of poems about the long journey from the Garden Of Eden to the Bethlehem Manger...how did friends from the Old Testament see Christmas? [ More ]

How To Paint (Your Life and Art)
A new poem that Stocki feels is an economical summary of all that he has been trying to teach this last year... [ More ]

As we journey towards Christmas
A prayer for the journey to our remembrance of the incarnation. This was the prayer that Stocki prayed at the Queens University Carol Service... [ More ]

Delicate Mercy (in a Tom Waits' Scene)
Jesus came for not for the well but the sick, Stocki surmises... [ More ]

Factory of Magnificent Souls (for Nelson Mandela)
In August 2000, Stocki visited Robben Island, the island that was formerly the prison where Nelson Mandela spent much of his sentence. These are his thoughts, in rhyme, about that day, that place and the greatest human being of the 20th century... [ More ]

Tell Bruce
When Springsteen sings of New Jersey places and turn-pikes it seems oh so romantic. Galgorm and Harryville where I am from do not sound as good - well you tell Bruce... [ More ]

A Love Letter Home to Janice
Started this one in Cape Town, where I was for far too long without my wife... [ More ]

Les Cotils
As it happened. A diary entry of friends carving grace into the tapestry of life stories untangling... [ More ]

Caress of God's Grace (Am I Looking?)
Stocki explains line by line a new poem/song that he has written with Sam Hill and Phil Baggeley... [ More ]

DARE
Whet your appetite to encourage you to buy it... [ More ]

The Land of the Thou Shalt Nots
Heavily requested poem after Trevor Morrow read it at New Horizons... and another one as well... [ More ]

Angel's share
(From where in your imagination) [ More ]

Blessed are the arrogant
Originally written for The Little Acorn in the summer of '97. It is sadly annually, if not now daily, relevant. [ More ]

Rhyme, to what reason?
This was an article of reflection and poetry written for The Little Acorn magazine in August '98. [ More ]

Prayers for the four corners of Belfast
This was a prayer written for the Jesus In The City Conference which took place in Belfast in September '98. It was read in St.Patrick's Cathedral. [ More ]

Published Books:

Skeletons [1997]
My Mystery, Her Beauty and His Holy Ghost [1995]
Journey Through a Dark Reflections [1992]
Lyrics to Unwritten Tunes [1990]

Features & Miscellaneous:

The birth of Jasmine Grace
Come and Undo Me
Beautiful Day

Dare
Habitat for Humanity Liturgy

In The Growing '98 including over 30 poems
The Jesus Project Poems
Poems from the 1997 Christmas Special
New and Unpublished Poems
China Poems

Songs Co-Written:

The News Was News Today (with Iain Archer and Miriam Kaufmann)
I Drove Back Into Belfast (with Bryan Gormley)
Field Of Dreams (with Bryan Gormley)
Two Twigs Entwined (with Stuart McCrea)
Hey Joe (with Stuart McCrea)
Lonely Day (with Nigel Reid)
Masquerade (with Sam Hill and Richard G. Mitchell)*
Amsterdam (with Sam Hill)*
The Angels And Ghosts Of Vienna (with Sam Hill and Richard G Mitchell)
Las Vegas (with Peter Morrow)
Upside Down, Downside Up (with Peter Morrow)

*Lyrics released as songs on CD through Mainstream sung by Sam Hill. Also, "Where There Are Songs" is on sleeve of Brian Houston's album "Crush".

Availability:

Poetry books still available (i.e. 'Mystery' and Skeletons) can be purchased on mail order from:

Janice Gordon-Stockman, Badger Books,
The Sett, 49a Derryvolgie Avenue, Belfast BT9 6FP.
(Cheques for £4.00 (including p&p) payable to Janice Gordon-Stockman).

Skeletons can also be purchased from Family Books, The Assembly Buildings, Fisherwick Place, Belfast for £3.99.