Books by Steve Griffiths
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A Twist in the Stairs
Rack Press June 2023
The poems respond to a time of political, psychological and climate crisis, criss-crossing and interrogating threads of optimism, certainty and error, wonder, defeat, resignation – and resilience. Some of the poems have appeared in Stand, in Poetry Salzburg Review and online in New Boots and Pantisocracies.
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Weathereye: Selected Poems
SilverWood Books 2019
Steve Griffiths’ Weathereye: Selected Poems pulls together the best of seven collections over forty years. There are poems of childhood and family, love poems, and poems of being alive.
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Late Love Poems
Cinnamon Press 2016
Steve Griffiths’ Late Love Poems (Cinnamon Press, 2016) are celebrations and meditations, poems of playfulness and tragedy, loss and recovery – while time still has some tricks to play, some joyful, some cruel.
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Surfacing
Cinnamon Press 2011
A varied but coherent collection by a subtle and deeply intelligent writer who can address human concerns like the intimate recall of childhood or the challenges of middle age without sentimentality; he can move between abstract thought and concrete particularities with such ease that sometimes the join is invisible.
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An Elusive State
Cinnamon Press 2008
A man hits fifty. He grew up surrounded by a belief in progress. Now he, and the world around him, are not so sure. He creates a Utopia to comfort himself. Steve Griffiths’s cycle of poems, Al-Chwm, tells the story of the life and death of an imaginary utopia.
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