Wish I could be there. Jess
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1. Bill Griffiths: August 20 (2)
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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 08:40:28 +0100
From: Tim Allen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Bill Griffiths: August 20
Would love to be able to get to this... Looks great.
On 8 Aug 2018, at 21:36, Hampson, R wrote:
> Bill Griffiths: Big Birthday Bash
>
> To celebrate what would have been Bill Griffiths's 70th birthday, the
> Poetic s Research Centres of Royal Holloway and Birkbeck, University of
> London, are jointly hosting a reading in the Keynes Library, School of
> Arts, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H OPD.
>
> Mendoza and Peter Manson will launch their new book 'Windsuckers &
> Onsetters (Sonnots for Bill Griffiths)', Geraldine Monk and Alan Halsey
> will give the first performance of their in memoriam 'Under Boulby', and
> John Seed will talk about Bill Griffiths's life and lexical research in
> County Durham.
>
>
> 6.30-9.00. August 20.
>
>
> Fpr more information on Bill Griffiths, see the British Libray website
> (which is also commemorating him) and Will Rowe (ed), The Salt Companion
> to Bill Griffiths.
>
>
> Robert
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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 21:21:12 +0100
From: Paul Holman <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Bill Griffiths: August 20
David, would you care to explain, carefully & slowly, what you mean by that
remark. I knew Bill Griffiths well back in the day, & he was a gentle &
unassuming man, located so far from any kind of literary privilege that the
bulk of his writing was issued as very obviously home made spiral bound
pamphlets. He lived on the breadline, & spent time among bikers, in prison,
& on a houseboat before settling deeply into life at Seaham, all a very long
way from centres of cultural power & influence. He died in middle age, with
a tiny readership & plenty of work left to do, & I see absolutely no reason
to carp that his poetry, which is absolutely breathtaking at its best, is
receiving a degree of attention & celebration now.
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