ANGLESEY-born poet Steve Griffiths is reading from his collection of poems written over the past 40 years.

He has published seven collections of poems, many 'influenced and energised' by the landscape, history and people of Ynys Môn.

The readings Weathereye: Selected Poems, is at 7.15pm, at Oriel Môn Llangefni, on Tuesday, March 10.

Steve Griffiths was born in Trearddur Bay in 1949 and spent his teenage years in Amlwch. He is one of the 100 twentieth century Welsh poets writing in English featured in The Library of Wales ‘Poetry 1900-2000’ (2007, Parthian Books). His work has been widely broadcast and he has read in several countries, including a series of seven readings in New York in 2012.

He left the island in 1967 for university, but keeps coming back. He spent most of his working life in London, as a welfare rights and community worker, a researcher and policymaker in social and health inequality.

He has written many urban area profiles of poverty and health inequalities, and studies to reduce emergency hospital admissions. He was one of the architects of a billion-pound investment in supported housing by the UK Government. A commitment to social justice forged in Anglesey and deepened in the inner cities of England, drives many of his poems.