LAUNCH of BILL GRIFFITHS: COLLECTED EARLIER POEMS (1966-80)
Published by Reality Street in association with West House Books
Wednesday 17th February 2010, 7.30pm
Birkbeck College, University of London
in Room 203, Clore Management Centre (Torrington Square, facing Birkbeck main entrance)
featuring a reading of the complete Cycles
by Sean Bonney, Ken Edwards, Allen Fisher, Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk & Maggie O'Sullivan
All welcome - Free Entry
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BILL GRIFFITHS: COLLECTED EARLIER POEMS (1966-80)
Published by Reality Street in association with West House Books
This volume brings together for the first time the late Bill Griffiths' poetry up to 'Building: The New London Hospital'. The text, edited by Alan Halsey in consultation with Ken Edwards, 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. The works are presented in largely chronological order. Comprehensive endnotes detail both the publishing history and (Griffiths having been an inveterate reviser) variations in texts and alternative versions.
368pp.
ISBN: 978 1874400 45 5
Publication date 29 January 2010
Price £18.00 + post
Orders to reality.street@virgin.net or info@westhousebooks.co.uk
Also available (courtesy of West House Books) from Small Press Distribution at $29.95.