A grip on thin air

Plot

Review Abstract Arrival The Art Of Memory Barbara Hepworth's Garden, Sels Because Words Are Not Things Beginning Her Journey Bilingual The Biographies Of Poets Elemental Emigrants Equilibrium Equivocation Errata First Light Flight-path A Haunted House Hawk Point House Island Landscape Life-writing Likeness Lost And Found Love The Master-builder Metamorphosis Migration Naming Norfolk Parallel Motion Perfect Pitch A Poem Against The Kind Of Occasional Verse Polyptych: Annunciation: 1. The Art-critic Polyptych: Annunciation: 2. The Angel Polyptych: Annunciation: 3. Mary Polyptych: Annunciation: 4. Mary And The Angel Polyptych: Annunciation: 5. The Porter Rumour Shelf-life The Skater Skelton And The Birds Skelton At Diss Speech Story Travelling Light Women And Secrets -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® Product Description Jane Griffiths is a poet of place who belongs nowhere. She lived in Holland from the age of eight, and writes about the difficulty of belonging in any one place or any one language. Like many in the modern world, she is estranged inside her own country, wherever that is. In these intently observed poems, language becomes her flesh and blood, while the physical world is less than usually solid. House and fields are evanescent, as in paintings, She often uses images of make-do and makeshift. Speech is imagined as a string, love as a kite. A mattress becomes a life-raft, and many of her houses seem to be under water. In the face of shifting boundaries, her poems are attempted repossessions. The exile comes home in the act of writing the poem, finding it was always there, where she imagined it, not where she thought it was.