Bill Griffiths was a poet, Anglo-Saxon scholar, book designer, small press publisher, biker, houseboat owner, pianist, archivist and social historian who late in his career moved from London to North East England where he reinvigorated the study of the region's dialect. He died in 2007 at the age of 59.
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Bill Griffiths: Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) |
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£ 18
Reality
Street has collaborated with West House Books to bring together for the
first time the late Bill Griffiths' poetry up until 1980 (ie all the work preceding that in Salt Publishing's The Mud Fort).
The text, edited by Alan Halsey and Ken Edwards, includes the complete sequences "Cycles", "War w/ Windsor", "A History of the Solar System" and "Building: The New London Hospital" that so astonished readers when they first appeared, plus much other poetry that was published by his own Pirate Press imprint, Writers Forum and other small presses during the 1970s. Comprehensive endnotes detail both the publishing history and variations in texts and alternative versions. NB This book is also available from Small Press Distribution at $29.95. Jan 2010, 978-1-874400-45-5, 368pp, price £18 |
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Launch of Bill Griffiths' Collected Earlier Poems at Birkbeck College, London, on 17.2.10. Six poets read Bill's "Cycles" in their entirety; pictured from top left are: Alan Halsey, Allen Fisher, Geraldine Monk (with Alan Halsey), Ken Edwards, Sean Bonney (with Stephen Mooney, left, and William Rowe, right), Maggie O'Sullivan (with Ken Edwards). Pictures by David Andrew.
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