IN time for Valentine’s Day Ludlow poet Steve Griffiths is publishing a very personal book of love poems.

‘Late Love Poems’ was due to be launched at a special evening of poetry at The Blue Boar yesterday evening (Wednesday, January 20).

It will include some reading by Steve who comes from Anglesey but has lived in Ludlow for many years.

Late Love Poems are a series of celebrations and meditations, poems of playfulness and tragedy, loss and recovery.

“We knew each other when we were 19 and found each other again in our 50s,” said Steve Griffiths.

“It was third time lucky.

"These poems celebrate the ways things fell into place for us, how suddenly life was very, very good – and gave us the resources to deal with some hard times.”