STEVE GRIFFITHS                                                                          POET

 

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Poem of the Month

   New collection:

 

   An Elusive State: Entering al–Chwm (Cinnamon Press, 2008) (www.cinnamonpress.com)

 

A man hits fifty. He grew up surrounded by a belief in progress. Now he, and the world around him, are not so sure.    He creates a Utopia to comfort himself.  Steve Griffiths's cycle of poems tells the story of the life and death of an imaginary utopia.

 

"…a book about maturity, history, mistakes, places, death, democracy, power, laughter in the dark, science in the context of these matters, glasses half full or half empty, cups overflowing and the advantages and disadvantages of this…"

 

The cycle began with a vision in the province of Granada which merged a twilight in the hill town of Montefrio with one in Griffiths's home village in Anglesey, North Wales, as the lights came on one by one.   Steve read from al-Chwm on Radio Three’s ‘The Verb’ in 2006, and will return to the programme shortly.

 

From Planet, Issue 195:

 

“An Elusive State is a poetic epic of time, place and language….both as invented as More’s original Utopia, and as real as the small town on Anglesey where Griffiths was born…… a distinctive, distinguished accomplishment….. truly a parable of many parallels, one for and beyond our times, and one where – most importantly – the poetry is all”

                                                                                          Amanda Hopkinson, 2009

 

Here are some early responses to the manuscript:

 

"…let me say how much I enjoyed the manuscript – it was a real breath of fresh air – genuinely individual…"                                                  Don Paterson

 

"…Challenging, refreshing…the tangential world we really inhabit…ambitious, demanding and should be seen…"                                       Robert Minhinnick

 

 

 

  Read extracts from Steve Griffiths' new work

 

 

a description of the work

 

 

and an audio extract

 

 

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