The Salt Companion To Bill Griffiths

This is a collection of essays about, and interviews with, the contemporary British poet, Bill Griffiths. His poetry, written over four decades, is wide-ranging in tone, subject, practice and effect, dealing with anything from London, prison, hospital, colonial history, boats, cartoons, old English and dialect poetry, or the classics. Griffiths has long been celebrated as a leading figure of the British Poetry Revival, yet this is to underestimate the continuing impact of this exciting and accessible writer. These essays aim to help ordinary readers and students gain insight into Griffiths's astonishing jewel-like lyrics and to re-situate him in the mainstream of British poetry.

William Rowe teaches contemporary British and Latin American poetry at Birkbeck College, where he is Director of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre. He has written on Maggie O'Sullivan, Lee Harwood, Eric Mottram, Allen Fisher, and William Carlos Williams and is the author of Three Lyric Poets: Lee Harwood, Barry MacSweeney and Chris Torrance, forthcoming from Northcote House in the Writers and Their Work series. His translations of contemporary Latin American poets have been widely published, and he has three books on Latin American poetry, including Poets of Contemporary Latin America: History and the Inner Life (OUP, 2000).