Steve Griffiths

Updrafts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This pamphlet is the result of Ludlow Fringe 2020's Beautiful Earth project. Workers for the Fringe had the idea that to cheer us all up at a difficult time, Ludlow should be decked out with bunting, each pennant with an artwork or a poem celebrating the beauty of the Earth. Steve Griffiths saw this and began to collect poems from past and future books that would fit the bill: Updrafts, they aim to lift your flight, if you're a bird or a reader - with just a few shadows. They complement his Late Love Poems, many of which are included in his latest book: Weathereye: Selected Poems. Ludlow Fringe and Fair Acre Press agreed, and this pamphlet is the result. In these times many people are struggling to make ends meet, particularly as things close down as a result of the Pandemic. We will raise money to support Ludlow Food Bank from sales of the pamphlet. Here is an exceptional pamphlet, studded with some of the very best of Steve Griffiths' work. Updrafts explores the richness of the poet's life- long connection to place - and wider skies - in poems of spare but deeply felt and vivid imagery. The landscapes of Anglesey and Shropshire feature here, but so too, do 'three herons, slow/ and upside down over Harringay' as the poet exercises in his flat. These poems celebrate life, and remind us there is 'no joy but in recognition and discovery.// No resilience/ but in the delicate'. Jean Atkin This is poetry attentive to the world, its rhythms, its planetary movements, its seas and hills, its chastening weather, distinctive and engaged, moving but unsentimental. Nicholas Murray

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fair Acre Press
• Seitenzahl: 30
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 53g
• ISBN-13: 9781911048466
• ISBN-10: 1911048465
• Artikelnr.: 60024163

Autorenporträt

Steve Griffiths was born in Anglesey in 1949, grew up on a beach, lived in London most of his working life, and now lives in Ludlow. He has published seven collections of poems since 1980, with Rex Collings, Seren and Cinnamon, most recently 'Late Love Poems' (Cinnamon Press, 2016). You can see filmed performances of the 'Late Love Poems', for which he received Arts Council England funding, on YouTube. His work has been widely broadcast and he has read in several countries, including a series of seven readings in New York in 2012. He is one of the hundred twentieth century Welsh poets writing in English featured in The Library of Wales 'Poetry 1900-2000' (2007, Parthian Books). He has a collection of new poems up his sleeve. He worked first as a welfare rights and community worker, then as a researcher and policymaker in social and health inequality. Working for central Government at the turn of the century, he was an architect of a billion-pound investment in supported housing while working at weekends on his poetic exploration of a fallible Utopia, 'An Elusive State'. He later wrote studies on reducing emergency hospital admissions. He still publishes the occasional policy thinkpiece online. And he's a proud grandad. His poetry website is www.stevegriffithspoet.com.