Bill Griffiths
	Bill Griffiths (Brian William Bransom Griffiths) was born in Kingsbury, Middlesex, 1948. PhD in field of Old English, King's College London, 1987. Moved north to Seaham, Co. Durham, 1990. He was engaged in dialect projects for Centre for Northern Studies, Northumbria University when he died suddenly in September 2007. www.billygriff.co.uk An obituary by David Caddy, a recording of which is presented as So Here We Are 7: Poetic Letters From England, is available from David Caddy's blog.
Recordings This recording was made on 19 May, 2005 in a flat in north London. 'Changing Over' 'In Colchester' 'Insurance' 'In the Coal Year' 'Kindersenen' 'MoorsRider' 'Nativity' 'Parsnip'	'Pease' 'Potato' 'The Dance' 'The Boat' 'The Bow Men' 'The GLC Abolished' 'The Hawksmoor Mausoleum' 'The House' 'The Transit' 'The Wild Hunt' 'Tokay'
A full bibliography has been prepared by Douglas Jones and will be printed in forthcoming Salt Companion to Bill Griffiths Sample text Two extracts from 'A Tour of the Fairground' (unpublished): PENNY SHOVE It woz (I can recall) Flatbed pennies Acting aza a sorta travelator. You added coins this end, Eventually Other like coins toppled off the far end A copper rainfall In minimal ratio To your profit loss. Them you kept. But more are born than die, More geese than swans. * VERTICAL With a convulsion of the stomach Th' universe is produced Shot up volcanic Bit bile The ascend Of blood retch't In ungobbable stars Violent churnings That subside in REGRET DO NOT REPEAT Quotes "I only claim for my poems that they are strange. The Buddhist recovering of ways, the multiple regimes of prison, the significance of coal, the Toxteth riots, the invisible population that shares our world and mimics us... There is a signal lack of respect." BG By downloading files from this site, you agree to our Terms and Conditions