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Bill Griffiths

Collected Poems & Sequences 1981-91

Ed. Alan Halsey

Published by Reality Street 2014

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

This successor volume to Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) extends the account through the following decade, collecting work that first appeared in very small editions mostly from Writers Forum and his own Pirate Press and later Amra Imprint. It also includes uncollected or previously unpublished poems from the period, with full biographical and textual notes.

Price £19.00

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426pp


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WB1554

Bill Griffiths

Durham and other sequences


Published by West House 2002

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Durham & Other Sequences features a series of composite texts and a world of subject material, from Astor in the New World to Cuthbert in the Anglo-Saxon North-East, via rural scenes, metropolitan furnishing, a garnish of top vegetables and a prison visit. Can poetry cope with any subject material? In three decades of published poetry Bill Griffiths has never stopped trying to find out. Typeset at Five Seasons Press. Cover image by Robert Clark.

Price £8.50

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64pp


ISBN
1 904052 04 5


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WB282

Bill Griffiths

Materia Boethiana


Published by Galloping Dog & The Poetry Bookshop 1984

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Vintage Griffiths collection including Guide to the Giants of England and The Peacock Variations. Cover by Alan Halsey.

Price £12.00

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32pp


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WB286

Bill Griffiths

A Book of Spilt Cities


Published by Etruscan 1999

Edition 1st

Condition Near fine

Cover & section plates by Robert Clark. Introduction by Iain Sinclair. Cloth in dustjacket soiled at edges. ’... pitching his voice(s) against an increasingly dystopian terrain, Griffiths finds that London has been cleaved, divided against herself, split like the hemispheres of the cerebellum.’

Price £16.00

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94pp


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WB685

Bill Griffiths

Darwin’s Dialogues


Published by Amra [1991]

Edition 1st

Condition Near fine

2nd issue in non-laminated wrappers. Stapled A5, staples rusty. ‘Poems, dialogue & prose: a fantasy on the Darwinian heritage.’

Price £6.00

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44pp


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WB1013

Bill Griffiths

Review of Brian Greenaway; and Notes from Delvan McIntosh


Published by Amra [1992]

Edition 2nd printing

Condition Near fine

’Two poems, the first an apocalyptic commentary on Greenaway’s book "Hell’s Angel", 1982.’ A5 landscape. Remaining copies have been punched for string binding but eventually stapled.

Price £6.00

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32pp


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Bill Griffiths

Seventy-Six Day Wanno, Mississippi and Highpoint Journal


Published by Amra [1993]

Edition 1st

Condition Very good

With Delvan McIntosh. A4 landscape, comb-bound. ‘Diary and letters on H.M.P. Wandsworth and Highpoint.’

Price £9.50

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20pp


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Bill Griffiths

Future Exiles: 3 London Poets

with Allen Fisher, Brian Catling

Published by Paladin 1992

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

Paladin Re/active Anthology 1. The series was pulped soon after publication. Bill Griffiths ‘Selected Poems, 1969-89’ pp.151-334, with an introduction by Jeff Nuttall.

Price £12.00

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477pp


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WB1036

 

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