Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize (Newdigate Prize)
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Jane Griffiths
ジェーン・グリフィス
Jein Guriffisu
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1970-01-01 （Exeter, England）
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Exeter, England → Netherlands → Oxford, England → Edinburgh, Scotland → Bristol, England
Career
- Occupations
- poet, literary historian, bookbinder, lexicographer, university lecturer
- Active Years
- 1990-2024
- Affiliations
- St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University, University of Edinburgh, University of Bristol, Wadham College, Oxford
- Influenced By
- John Skelton
- Nominations
- Shortlisted for Forward Poetry Prize 2008 (Another Country)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oxford University | Faculty of English | English | BA | — | United Kingdom |
| Oxford University | — | English Literature | DPhil | — | United Kingdom |
Oxford University
Faculty of English
/ English
Degree:
BA
Country:
United Kingdom
Oxford University
English Literature
Degree:
DPhil
Country:
United Kingdom
Dissertation on the Tudor poet John Skelton
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Newdigate Prize | The House | — | Oxford University | 受賞 |
| 1996 | Eric Gregory Award | Poetry | — | Society of Authors | 受賞 |
Newdigate Prize
1990
Work:
The House
Organization:
Oxford University
Result:
受賞
Eric Gregory Award
1996
Work:
Poetry
Organization:
Society of Authors
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Little Silver
2022 Poetry collectionBritish poet Jane Griffiths’ sixth collection, Little Silver, offers the riches you might expect from a former bookbinder and Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer turned painter, silversmith, and John Skelton scholar. Clear-eyed lyrics move through shifting perspectives, holding us in moments of narrative tension that evolve into lyric reflection.
shifting perspectiveslyric reflection
Silent In Finisterre
2017 Poetry collectionA major achievement, outstanding, complex and subtle in thought, supple of tone and piercing in its observation.
observationsubtlety
Terrestrial Variations
2012 Poetry collectionSensuously wrought and even, at times, subtly erotic, her poems simultaneously evoke another level of pure abstraction, with words in place of coils of paint.
sensuousabstraction
Bibliography
- The House (1990)
- A Grip on Thin Air (2000)
- Icarus on Earth (2005)
- Another Country: New and Selected Poems (2008)
- Terrestrial Variations (2012)
- Silent In Finisterre (2017)
- Little Silver (2022)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- sensuously wroughtpure abstractionlyricalpiercing observation
Legacy
Prominent contemporary British poet with multiple collections published by Bloodaxe Books. Lecturer at Oxford University specializing in 15th-16th century poetry and drama. Author of monograph on John Skelton.
Quotes
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British poet Jane Griffiths’ sixth collection, Little Silver, offers the riches you might expect from a former bookbinder and Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer turned painter, silversmith, and John Skelton scholar. Clear-eyed lyrics move through shifting perspectives, holding us in moments of narrative tension that evolve into lyric reflection
Source: Poetry Foundation USA