Poetry
Category: Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 64
ISBN: 9780907476337
Publication date: May 1, 1984
Price: £3.5
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Steve Griffiths is one of very few English language poets to come out of Anglesey. Civilised Airs divides into poems of love and those of social concern. The former show a delicacy and tenderness in the personal world of the poet, the latter a controlled anger at the position of fragile human beings in a hard and disinterested society.
Together they illustrate implicitly the distance which has developed between the private individual and the public world he inhabits. The poems as a whole are marked by astute observations, vivid imagery, toughness, a wry humour and elegant use of words.
Steve Griffiths
Born in Anglesey in 1949, Steve Griffiths has published five collections of poetry, including Selected Poems with Seren (1993) and after a fifteen-year break from publishing, An Elusive State with Cinnamon (2008). He has read in the UK, France, Spain and the USA, and on Radio 3, including recently The Verb. He is widely published in magazines, including Poetry Wales, The Rialto, London Magazine, and Stand. Re-energised, he has recently completed two new collections.
