Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) will be published in January by Reality Street.

This is the first time this great, innovative poet’s work has been properly collected. The poetry included here was originally written and published in the 1960s and 70s, and immediately predates the work included in The Mud Fort. It includes the complete “Cycles”, War W/ Windsor”, “A History of the Solar System” and other sequences, as well as a multitude of other poems and and sets of poems, previously published in fugitive editions or not at all, presented in roughly chronological order. The volume is rounded off with Alan Halsey’s meticulous endnotes, detailing the original publishing history and variant texts.

You can obtain this book by:

becoming a REALITY STREET SUPPORTER in 2010 – you will receive it as part of a package which also includes books by Fanny Howe, Richard Makin and Jim Goar.

ordering it at the pre-publication price of £17.50 post free (after January it will be £18 + p&p).

You can also pre-order it at http://www.amazon.co.uk at £18 post free.

Bill Griffiths: Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80)
Edited & introduced by Alan Halsey & Ken Edwards
368pp
ISBN: 978 1874400 45 5
29 January 2010