News from Steve Griffiths
Steve Griffiths launches his third poetry pamphlet in four years, The Gaze Met
Steve Griffiths has launched his third poetry pamphlet in four years, ‘The Gaze Met’, published by Clutag Press. A convivial gathering with old friends and new on June 11th with fellow Clutag pamphleteers Robert Minhinnick and Laura Wainwright at the Wheatsheaf,...
Steve Griffiths interviewed by Zoe Brigley in the Poetry Wales online series ‘How I wrote’: ‘We need a definite programme’
Steve Griffiths interviewed by Zoe Brigley in the Poetry Wales online series ‘How I wrote’: ‘We need a definite programme’, now in Steve’s Rack Press pamphlet ‘A Twist in the Stairs’, available from https://rackpress.blogspot.com/. Steve talks about how a poem takes...
Steve Griffiths launches his poetry pamphlet ‘A Twist in the Stairs’ with Rack Press
Steve Griffiths launches his poetry pamphlet ‘A Twist in the Stairs’, published by Rack Press, on 16 June at the Music Room, 49 Great Ormond Street, London WC1, alongside pamphlets by Michele Hutchison, William Palmer and Tuesday Shannon. Find out more and order...
Steve Griffiths reads his poems in a series of videos: 7, Certainty
This is a ten-minute recording of ‘Certainty’, a poem I struggled to write through 2001, exactly 20 years ago. In the autumn of that year, 9/11 broke over it as I worked to understand what would have caused my half-imagined, book-length Utopia, ‘An Elusive State’, to...
Steve Griffiths reading at Red Parrot Poetry, No. 46 (The Wine Bar), High Street Presteigne, 20 June, 7pm
Steve Griffiths will read with Liz Lefroy and Roger Garfitt at Red Parrot Poetry, No. 46 (The Wine Bar), High Street, Presteigne on Monday, 20th June at 7pm. Tickets are £5 each. Half the proceeds to Ukrainian refugees. Books and pamphlets will be available. ...
Great review of Weathereye: Selected Poems by Jon Gower in Nation.Cymru
Review by Jon Gower, on Weathereye, Selected Poems, in Nation.Cymru (2021) - Read the full article here Weathereye is the harvest of 40 years of poetry from Steve Griffiths. While the poems range freely from bullfighting to ancient burial chambers, from nuclear...
Steve reads his poems in a new series of videos: Week 2, ‘The Shooting of Levellers, Burford, 1649’
Steve has recorded readings of his poems, new and old, each with a selected a single visual image to accompany it. Coming out one a week through 2021. See the recent videos page for the full collection. The second is ‘The Shooting of Levellers, Burford, 1649’, from...
Steve reads his poems in a new series of videos: Week 1, ‘Ocean from Space’
Steve has recorded readings of his poems, new and old, each with a selected a single visual image to accompany it. Coming out one a week through 2021. See the recent videos page for the full collection. The first one is ' Ocean from Space', which is published by...
Jean Atkin launches Fan-Peckled, her poetry pamphlet 21 March, with Fair Acre Press
Roll up for the launch, 5-6pm for a scrumptious spread of Shropshire words to savour and save from Jean Atkin, illustrations by Katy Alston, hosted by the wonderful Fair Acre Press - supported by Fair Acre authors John Sewell, Steve Griffiths and Carl Tomlinson. Find...
Pestilence Poems
Scottish poet Hugh McMillan has popped up a video reading I made of my poem 'Words' into the February Backroom of his Pestilence Poems series. Tricky things, Words, we continue to discover - or not. It's a fine series, Pestilence Poems - take a look at the others. And...