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Jane Griffiths was born in Exeter in 1970, and brought up in Holland and Devon. She teaches at Wadham College, Oxford, and is literary editor of the Oxford Magazine. She won an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry in 1996. Her book Another Country: New & Selected Poems (2008), wasshortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Her later collections from Bloodaxe areTerrestrial Variations (2012), Silent in Finisterre (2017), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and Little Silver (2022).
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 home…she has something of the Dutch still-life painter’s eye: the comprehension of solid form as nothing, finally, but the effect of light. 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 * The Guardian, on Another Country * A major achievement… outstanding… complex and subtle in thought, supple of tone and piercing in its observation. -- Sarah Broom * Times Literary Supplement, on Another Country * These are marvellously atmospheric poems: they have something of the quality of very careful watercolours. -- Tim Liardet and Vona Groarke * PBS Bulletin, on Silent in Finisterre *
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