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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