One of very few English language poets to come out of Anglesey, Steve Griffiths is married and has a young son. 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.
"These are serious poems for a serious time, and the strength and flexibility of their language matches their concern"
Acumen
"He provokes a wary excitement and the feeling that our own time is being plausibly imagined... He reminds us of a great lack in our poetry"
TLS
Steve Griffiths' poetry has been widely published in magazines and anthologies.
- ISBN10 0907476333
- ISBN13 9780907476337
- Publish Date 1 May 1984
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 July 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Poetry Wales Press
- Imprint Seren
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English