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 ...
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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.
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New. 2012. Paperback. Fourth book of poems by Jane Griffiths, whose previous Bloodaxe title "Another Country" was shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best Collection. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 164 x 6. Weight in Grams: 134. 64 pages. Fourth book of poems by Jane Griffiths, whose previous Bloodaxe title "Another Country" was shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best Collection. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 6. Weight: 136......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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