The Egyptian Alchemy Oracle Book & Card Deck

Steve Denham attended the University of Sydney, where he received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Philosophy and Psychology. He then got his Master of Arts at the same university in Psychology. He is also qualified with Diplomas in Graphic Design and Creative Communications.

For over 25 years, Steve has also been a member of a meditation-based esoteric school in Sydney practising the conscious breath and stillness as the foundation of fulfilling one’s soul potential. At the age of eighteen, he had a sudden awakening, an experience he describes as ‘being struck by, and filled with light’. Since that moment, he has pursued the meaning of his true destiny and how to meld his creative gifts into his day-to-day life.

From the age of nine, his heart has always answered the call of poetry and art, to make music with words and imagery. To be able to compose in this way, not in isolation but creative interplay with wife Emma, is a gift and a shared joy.

Steve’s lifelong passion for drawing and painting has accelerated in recent years. His prolific output is in evidence online at ‘Bluethumb - Home of Australian artists’. Again in collaboration with Emma, his artwork also appears in a retail line of greeting cards published in 2023 by Watermark Enterprises. He has been shortlisted for several Australian poetry prizes including the Blake Prize for Poetry (2017), the Australian Catholic University Prize for Poetry (2019, 2021, 2023, 2024) and the Lambing Flat (Federation of Australian Writers) Poetry Prize (2019).

He has published three short stories, five poetry collections, one novella, one collection of published articles and two works of creative non-fiction - all in kindle format. He is also active on Instagram as @the_noholdsbard.