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BILL GRIFFITHS
"The Mud Fort"
Salt Modern Poets
ISBN 1844710750
£13.99
This book draws together a major selection of poems from 1984-2004.
Including works on London, sport, boats, cartoons, food, the classics, the
mystical, history, crime, and the North. A taut, rhythmic verse, with
respect for word-sound and a cheering disregard for consensus on history,
language and 'poetry'.
"To have even a part of Bill Griffiths' writing of the past decades widely
available is an event to be welcomed. Mercurially self-effacing - a Pepper's
Ghost on the stage of poetry - Bill has kept the down-home of the
reality-based community honest and welcoming: generous music."
-- Tom Raworth
"Griffiths's poetry sings among the bogus, as Basil Bunting might have said,
with an insouciant yet high musical intelligence almost unique among
contemporary poets. The poet's sense of local and wider history, his concern
for the human soul (an old concept here made new in a materialist age), his
dazzling lexical virtuosity, his range of forms and his commitment to vital
scholarly investigation of a long range past combine to posit a fundamental
challenge to all authoritarian claims to truth, especially the totalitarian
reduction of human consciousness to the present and immediate: that
degrading reality crust of postmodern confidence. The poetry runs the gamut
of human perception from the comic to the mystical and from the lyrical to
the tragic. Human achievement and human failure are dispassionately
articulated in a world where Blakean contraries have full play. His is a
unique and unrepeatable voice speaking with an unnerving accuracy in our
time." -- Clive Bush
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