Surfacing by Steve Griffiths

pre-order: out November 2011

UK £7.99 Europe £8.99 rest of world £9.50

A varied but coherent collection by a subtle and deeply intelligent writer who can address human concerns like the intimate recall of childhood or the challenges of middle age without sentimentality; he can move between abstract thought and concrete particularities with such ease that sometimes the join is invisible. This is mature writing, picking its way through the layers and ‘surfaces’ of an experience, suddenly clarified into a single lucid image. Steve Griffith’s writing voice is assured but not predictable.
Philip Gross

Steve Griffiths was born in Trearddur Bay, Anglesey, in 1949. He has published four collections of poems since 1980, the last being Selected Poems (Seren, 1993). In the nineties he took a long break from writing and publishing, before an intense period from 1999–2004 when he wrote An Elusive State: Entering al–Chwm.