The Grass Thins As You Climb The Hill

by Jon Hayden Griffin

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1.	Blood Moon 00:57	buy track
2.	Unexpected Wave 00:25	buy track
3.	Broken Wing 00:36	buy track
4.	The Boys At The Back Of The Class 01:24	buy track
5.	Upon The Twilight Hill 00:44	buy track
6.	Swallowed By The Low Cloud 00:33	buy track
7.	Canal Horse 01:03	buy track
8.	Inheritance Leased 00:52	buy track
9.	The Night The World Was Lost 00:29	buy track
10.	A Real Boy 01:51	buy track
11.	Next Spring 00:15	buy track
12.	Death Stalks The Garden 01:09	buy track
13.	Happy 50th Mandi 00:37	buy track
14.	Power Flow 01:14	buy track
15.	Momentary Longing 00:26	buy track
16.	Autumn Walk 00:33	buy track
17.	Beautiful Day 00:22	buy track
18.	Brother Cow 01:45	buy track
19.	Grief 01:40	buy track
20.	My Heart Is This 00:33	buy track
21.	The Grass Thins As You Climb The Hill 00:32	buy track
22.	Rhinocerous & Me 05:24	buy track
23.	Brexiteers 02:51	buy track

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I first started writing poetry as a child, in secret books that nobody ever saw. It made me feel so good to do it that somehow it felt as though I should keep it to myself but then I wasn’t moving through a world where poetry seemed to have much of a place. The brutal inner-city ‘realism’ of my South-East London childhood didn’t want my poet’s soul; it felt like it would eat you up if it knew who you really were so you had to produce a dead shell to walk in: an avatar. You had to pretend that you were tough, impervious, scornful. I was never very good at that. We didn’t study poetry at school (we didn’t study anything at school) but we were introduced to poets like Linton Kwesi-Johnson, John Agard and Benjamin Zephania which in itself was a very great thing though I didn’t realise it at the time, only later. As time went on I was kidnapped by my discovery of music and my main focus was on songwriting but I never stopped writing poems in my secret books. To be more accurate I should say that poems never stopped appearing to me because I very rarely sit down to write one, they enter my head like a visitation. In fact sometimes if one arrives when I’m driving I have to pull over to write it down. They arrive like that sometimes almost fully formed, other times they are more enigmatic and I need to spend months interpreting them. In any case, I can’t stop them appearing; I have no control over it.

This is the first collection of poems that I have produced to share with other people and I am very proud to release them into the world. Of course I hope very much that people will like and appreciate them but even if they don’t like or appreciate them I shan’t stop writing them in the secret books. I can’t you see.

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released May 4, 2023

Illustration: Siân Griffin

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