Silent in Finisterre
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (927 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1780373562 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sensuously wrought and even, at times, subtly erotic, her poems simultaneously evoke another level of pure abstraction, with words in place of coils of paint' - Adam Thorpe, Guardian; 'For Griffiths, meaning is not so much to be teased out of the universe as it is to be seen. 'Jane Griffiths is a poet attracted to the cross-hatchings of matter and spirit; inner and outer; air and water; foreignness and a sense of homeshe has something of the Dutch still-life painter's eye: the comprehension of solid form as nothing, finally, but the effect of light. Her underlying conviction
Physical things are remembered both for their own sake and to explore how they continue to shape the self. Jane Griffiths teaches at Wadham College, Oxford.. This collection from British poet Jane Griffiths draws on the houses and landscapes of childhood
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 C