Collected Earlier Poems by Bill Griffiths
This volume brings together for the first time the late Bill Griffiths' poetry up until 1980. The text, edited by Alan Halsey in consultation with Ken Edwards of Reality Street, includes the full Cycles and War w/ Windsor sequences that so astonished readers when they first appeared, as well as much other poetry that was published by his own Pirate Press imprint, Writers Forum and other small presses during the 1970s; and also poems and performance texts that have only made fleeting appearances in ephemeral pamphlets and magazines, or have never been published before. Bill Griffiths was a poet, Anglo-Saxon scholar, book designer, small press publisher, biker, pianist, archivist and social historian. He died in 2007 at the age of 59.William Griffiths spent the majority of his working life in the Royal Navy, from the North Atlantic through the South Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and on to the Far East and the Pacific, including the terrifying Russian Convoys. He served on a variety of ships, including landing craft, destroyers, frigates, corvettes, and aircraft carriers, from the beaches of North Africa through Messina, Salerno, Anzo, and D-Day Normandy. So, what's the point? He 'came up through the hawse-hole' to become an officer during peacetime, which indicates he was commissioned from the lower deck. The hawse-hole is a hole in a ship's bows through which the anchor cable moves as it ascends and descends.
Since leaving the workforce, he has traveled extensively, returning to many of the locations where the navy gained some of its hard-won honors. Otherwise, he's preoccupied with authorship, claiming that he'll write more novels after this one if he can find a publisher. He is a confirmed European, with a second house in France and a daughter who aspires to be a full-time artist. He is married and has a daughter who aspires to be a full-time artist when he is not in France.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781874400455 |
| ISBN 10 | 1874400458 |
| Title | Collected Earlier Poems |
| Author | Bill Griffiths |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Reality Street |
| Year published | 2010-01-29 |
| Number of pages | 370 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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