The houses and landscapes of childhood exert a strong presence in
Silent in Finisterre. Recalled by name, in incantation, or
described in ways that recapture their irreducible reality to a
child for whom they are the totality of the world, they become a
kind of memory theatre: for Jane Griffiths physical things are
remembered both for their own sake and to explore how they continue
to shape the self. Style impresses as much as content in her
resonantly evocative poems, with sentences played against line
breaks to create constant small disruptions of the expected sense,
while predictable phrases and forms of words are summoned only to
be rewritten. Here language is not a transparent means of conveying
a message but a medium that - no less than charcoal or oil paint -
materially affects what is expressed through it. Form and subject
are as inextricably entwined as 'the echo of port in the night's
starboard, / the terra firma that is silent in Finisterre'. Jane
Griffiths' Another Country: New & Selected Poems was
shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2008, and
followed by Terrestrial Variations in 2012. Silent in Finisterre
shows her extending her explorations of people and place with
delight at being in the world, despite the threat of loss. Poetry
Book Society Recommendation.
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