{"product_id":"updrafts-steve-griffiths-9781911048466","title":"Updrafts","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis pamphlet is the result of Ludlow Fringe 2020's Beautiful Earth project. Workers for the Fringe had the idea that to cheer us all up at a difficult time, Ludlow should be decked out with bunting, each pennant with an artwork or a poem celebrating the beauty of the Earth. Steve Griffiths saw this and began\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto collect poems from past and future books that would fit the bill: Updrafts, they aim to lift your flight, if you're a bird or a reader - with just a few shadows. They complement his Late Love Poems, many of which are included in his latest book: Weathereye: Selected Poems. Ludlow Fringe and Fair Acre Press agreed, and this pamphlet is the result.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these times many people are struggling to make ends meet, particularly as things close down as a result of the Pandemic. We will raise money to support Ludlow Food Bank from sales of the pamphlet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is an exceptional pamphlet, studded with some of the very best of Steve Griffiths' work. Updrafts explores the richness of the poet's life- long connection to place - and wider skies - in poems of spare but deeply felt and vivid imagery. The landscapes of Anglesey and Shropshire feature here, but so too, do 'three herons, slow\/ and upside down over Harringay' as the poet exercises in his flat. These poems celebrate life, and remind us there is 'no joy but in recognition and discovery.\/\/ No resilience\/ but in the delicate'. Jean Atkin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is poetry attentive to the world, its rhythms, its planetary movements, its seas and hills, its chastening weather, distinctive and engaged, moving but unsentimental. Nicholas Murray\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve Griffiths\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1911048465\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781911048466\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fair Acre Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.06d","brand":"Steve Griffiths","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48442634207487,"sku":"9781911048466","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0562da14-67b2-495c-8501-52d57dafc7d8.jpg?v=1777198721","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/updrafts-steve-griffiths-9781911048466","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}