Late Love Poems - Softcover

Steve Griffiths Late Love Poems are a series of celebrations and meditations, poems of playfulness and tragedy, loss and recovery - while time still has some tricks to play, some joyful, some cruel. It s a story of two young people who were together in the Seventies, went their separate ways, made their lives and had their families; and their coming together again in their mid-fifties. The poems carry a charged resonance between past and present, and inhabit a world where generosity is unexpectedly abundant, and is as playful as it is hard-earned. They are a new and surprising - and surprised - departure for Steve.

The Late Love Poems film project is centred around Steve Griffiths poems celebrating the recovery, 35 years on, of the love of his twenties. Steve s performances of thirty of the poems are being filmed in a range of settings, and will be uploaded to YouTube poem by poem every week for six months. There are a website, Facebook and Twitter presence, @twitterpoems. There will be a series of live performances in 2016.

The project is supported by social media partners from the arts, libraries and other community networks to engage with a range of audiences, including a focus on people in second marriages and relationships.

Steve has published six well received collections of poems including: Surfacing (Cinnamon, 2011), and Selected Poems (Seren, 1993). his work has been broadcast on national radio, and his readings have included a series of seven in New York in 2012.