The recurrent themes of Little Silver are inheritance, loss, and
the relationship between real and imagined lives. Moments of crisis
- a near-drowning, a fall down a mine-shaft, the death of a friend
- prompt reflection on the stories 'we tell ourselves about our /
selves', and on the sheer strangeness of existing in our bodies and
in time. The book's title sequence responds to the recent
demolition of Jane Griffiths' childhood home, whose absence appears
as 'a little silvering between the trees'. Setting its absence
against the memory of 'Little Silver', a small enclave of houses in
Exeter that she passed on the way home from school (and whose name
fascinated her), she considers the gap between the two as the space
of the imagination: the origins of her writing. Other poems centre
on the theme of childlessness and the relationship between that and
other kinds of making; a sequence centred on conversations between
an artist and her imaginary children concludes when the daughter
asks 'So if we existed the tree could stand alone?' The emphasis in
these poems is on inventiveness and endeavour, on lifelines and
human traces.
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