Reviews

 

An Elusive State: Entering al–Chwm (Cinnamon Press, 2008)

 

“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,  Planet, Issue 195, 2009

 

 

Of his Selected Poems (Seren, 1993):

"…(they) show him to possess that defining attribute of the important talent, the capacity for sustained development.   The continuity is felt, imparted by a pulse from the heart of books and poems, rather than residing in conveniently definable themes or motifs.  Griffiths' achievement lies in the emergence in his writing of a mode in which social, ethical and personal elements undergo a deep fusion..."

                                                                                    Douglas Houston, Poetry Wales     

 

 

Of his Civilised Airs (Seren, 1984):

"...another ghost can be sensed – the austere authority of Zbigniew Herbert – and when Griffiths hits this note he reminds us of a great lack in our poetry..."

                                                                                                       Sean O'Brien, TLS