Jane Griffiths writes mysteriously resonant poems about home, exile
and shifting frontiers in classically precise language. "Another
Country" presents a selection from her first two collections, "A
Grip on Thin Air" and "Icarus on Earth", as well as a whole
collection of new work. Where the earlier books are shot through
with a migrant's sense of estrangement, her new poems explore what
it might mean to settle in a place. The central sequence 'Eclogue
Over Merlin Street' highlights this changing perspective through a
dialogue between two voices of an immigrant in London, one
embracing her new life but the other still haunted by displacement.
Many other poems echo this tension, caught between love of a place
and the fear of losing it. Jane Griffiths celebrates the landscapes
she lives in by observing and recording them, yet with a strong
awareness that these places exist in and of themselves, regardless
of her observation. Hers are poems that delight in being in the
world, despite the threat of loss.
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