On Saturday 1st March Reality Street Books launched the second Collected Poems and Sequences by Bill Griffiths in London. The editor Alan Halsey invited a few people who had helped him in his exacting task in some way. My claim to be there was on the basis of a few suggestions I made to Alan about the integrity of text-image interplay in The Book of the Boat. My writings on that may be read here. Apologies for raw links below, but I've embedded the ensemble piece for four voices.
Introduction - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2_uGUeXxPA
then readings from Griffiths' work by
Allen Fisher - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoAS6c06Tfo
Ensemble above (Fisher, Mendoza, Sheppard, Edwards)
Robert Sheppard - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQZfDt7u1lE
Geraldine Monk (& guest appearance by the Anglo-Saxon scop Gavin Selerie) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2QwPupSyuY
Harry Gilonis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06CWhO3VnN4
Ken Edwards - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev77ncKBDwE
Alan Halsey - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWcnFtdJHTw
Links to links to Bill Griffiths' stories on Pages here.
