News from Steve Griffiths
Ink Sweat and Tears
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... ...
Late Love Poems at Ludlow Fringe online
Steve Griffiths' Late Love Poems video, filmed by Eamon Bourke, is being shown on the Ludlow Fringe online during the second half of August. A selection from the poems appears in 'Weathereye; Selected Poems'. They were originally published as 'Late Love Poems'...
A new pamphlet: ‘Updrafts’, published by Fair Acre Press, for the Ludlow Fringe, proceeds to Ludlow Food Bank
This pamphlet can only be described as 'sudden', inspired by the Ludlow Fringe idea to respond to the pandemic by putting bunting around Ludlow that celebrates the 'beautiful Earth'. I took a look at poems from past and future collections, found there was quite a...
Two new poems in Stand Magazine
Delighted to have a couple of poems in the excellent Stand Magazine. https://www.standmagazine.org/current-issue
Latest on Lockdown: are we up yet? Not yet, son.
Well, we’re up a gum tree with Covid-19. Readings from Weathereye: Selected Poems cut off in their prime. I managed to get one in at the excellent Imperial Hotel, Merthyr in February; just as the door was shutting, a reading at Oriel Môn Llangefni was virtually...
Seven Ways in to reading Steve Griffiths
It took years to find a generous place to write from; then a lifetime to find it again, lose it, find it, again and again.
Getting Him to Read: six themed readings
Steve Griffiths’ Weathereye: Selected Poems pulls together the best of seven collections over forty years. There are poems of childhood and family and love poems.
Late Love Poems – The Films
In 2015, I was awarded an Arts Council England grant to work with film-maker Eamon Bourke of Park6Films to create 30 short films of performances of poems from my collection Late Love Poems, published by Cinnamon Press in 2016. The resulting films were...