Another Country

by Griffiths, Jane

• ISBN13: 9781852247942
• ISBN10: 1852247940
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
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Summary

Jane Griffiths was born in Exeter in 1970, and brought up in Holland. She studied English at Oxford and earned her doctorate there. She has taught at Oxford and Edinburgh University and is currently teaching at University of Bristol. She won an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry in 1996. This latest work includes a new collection, 'Eclogue Over Merlin Street', together with large selections from her previous two collections. A Grip on Thin Air and Icarus on Earth.

Table of Contents

Eclogue Over Merlin Street (2008)
Blue	p. 13
White Song	p. 14
Stock	p. 15
Homing	p. 16
The Man Who Mapped the World One-to-One	p. 19
A Room of One's Own	p. 21
Train Time	p. 22
Metamorphosis	p. 23
Accidental	p. 24
Angles on Jacob's Ladder	p. 25
Territorial	p. 27
Incident	p. 28
Eclogue Over Merlin Street	p. 29
What the Translator Knows	p. 37
All Points North	p. 38
Another Country	p. 40
Aubade	p. 41
The Printer	p. 42
The Thought-Pigeon	p. 43
Travellers' Tales	p. 44
Jetlag	p. 46
Three Takes on a Location	p. 47
On Liking Glass Houses	p. 49
Vista	p. 50
House Painting	p. 51
Auricular	p. 54
Young Girl with a Flute	p. 55
The Poet with Pen and Ink	p. 56
Ode to an empty flat	p. 57
From Icarus on Earth (2005)
By the Book	p. 61
Origami	p. 62
Boat	p. 62
Fox and Rooster	p. 63
Cat	p. 63
Guitar	p. 64
Bird	p. 65
Elayne	p. 66
Proverbial	p. 67
Icarus on Earth	p. 68
Mother	p. 68
Girl	p. 69
Icarus	p. 70
Girl	p. 70
Biographer	p. 72
Girl	p. 73
Icarus	p. 74
Daedalus	p. 76
Eye-witness	p. 78
Biographer	p. 79
Girl	p. 80
Crystal Palaces	p. 81
Floating Poem	p. 83
Mythography	p. 84
Valediction	p. 86
Clairvoyance	p. 87
Kitty's Song	p. 88
Oxygen	p. 90
Patience	p. 97
Translation	p. 99
Elegy	p. 103
Russian Dolls	p. 104
From a Grip on Thin Air (2000)
Migration	p. 107
Arrival	p. 108
The Skater	p. 109
Norfolk	p. 110
Emigrants	p. 112
Elemental	p. 113
Beginning Her Journey	p. 115
Flight-path	p. 116
Women and Secrets	p. 118
Perfect Pitch	p. 119
Landscape	p. 121
Likeness	p. 122
Polyptych: Annunciation	p. 123
Equivocation	p. 127
Bilingual	p. 128
Because words are not things	p. 129
Lost and Found	p. 130
The Master-Builder	p. 131
House	p. 133
Travelling Light	p. 135
Skelton at Diss	p. 136
From Barbara Hepworth's Garden	p. 138
Shelf-Life/Life-writing	p. 140
Speech	p. 141
The Art of Memory	p. 142
Abstract	p. 144
Parallel Motion	p. 146
A poem against the kind of occasional verse	p. 147
Errata	p. 148
The Biographies of Poets	p. 150
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