News from Steve Griffiths

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’, 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...

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 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.   ...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

Here's a poem up today - my debut appearance on the excellent Ink Sweat & Tears; 'New Craft', my only performance as the daring old man in the flying campervan: I’m taking delivery of a house that flies. Wish us well, and hope it will respond to our touch...  ...