Terrestrial Variations

Name: Terrestrial Variations
Brand: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
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★★★★★

English

By (author): Jane Griffiths

The poems in Terrestrial Variations respond to the sheer chanciness of life. They are elegies for friends, relations, dead selves, and unrealised lives, but - like Jane Griffiths' previous poems - they are also full of things, both real and remembered, whose importance is as much literal as it is symbolic. Linguistically playful and sometimes ironically impatient with their own attention to detail, they record repeated attempts to make sense of the world and the strange business of getting on from day to day. Their slant perspective invites the reader too to realise: 'You'll never again say this is where I stand, and mean it.' Jane Griffiths' previous book Another Country: New & Selected Poems was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Terrestrial Variations shows her extending her explorations of people and place with delight at being in the world, despite the threat of loss. See more

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Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
Publication Date: 22 Mar 2012
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781852249274

About Jane Griffiths

Jane Griffiths was born in Exeter in 1970 and brought up in Holland and Devon. After reading English at Oxford where her poem 'The House' won the Newdigate Prize she worked as a book-binder in London and Norfolk. Returning to Oxford she completed her doctorate on the Tudor poet John Skelton and worked on the Oxford English Dictionary for two years. After teaching English Literature at St Edmund Hall Oxford and then at the universities of Edinburgh and Bristol she now teaches at Wadham College Oxford. She won an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry in 1996. Her book Another Country: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books 2008) which included a new collection Eclogue Over Merlin Street (2008) together with large selections from her previous two Bloodaxe collections A Grip on Thin Air (2000) and Icarus on Earth (2005) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Her most recent collections from Bloodaxe are Terrestrial Variations (2012) and Silent in Finisterre (2017) a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.