The poems in Running Wild continue in the same lyrical vein as Stephen Waters' previously published collections, The Stream(2008) and Lifting the Veil (2010). His poems are inspired by a love of nature, romantic love, the music of words and with occasional flickers of humour. Stephen Waters was brought up in Gloucester and now lives in Cardiff with his wife, Gill, whom he married in later years. He has won two prizes for poetry.