Jane Griffiths (poet)
Jane Griffiths (born 1970) is a British poet.
[edit] Career and writings
Griffiths was born in Exeter, England, and brought up in the Netherlands. She studied English at Oxford University, where she won the Newdigate prize for her poem "The House". After working as a bookbinder in London and Norfolk, she returned to Oxford to gain a doctorate with a dissertation on the Tudor poet John Skelton, and became an editor on the Oxford English Dictionary. Her poetry gained her an Eric Gregory Award in 1996.[1]
Griffiths teaching at Oxford University’s St. Edmund Hall, before becoming a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She was appointed a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Bristol in 2007.[2] Her university page lists her research interests as medieval and renaissance poetics and concepts of literary authority, John Skelton and Stephen Hawes, the reception of medieval works in the Renaissance, and 20th-century poetry. It includes a full bibliography.[3]
Her collection Another Country was short-listed for the 2008 Forward Poetry Prize.[4]
[edit] Poetry volumes
- The House (Hitchin: Mandeville Press, 1990). ISBN 1870410122
- A Grip on Thin Air (Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books, 2000). ISBN 1852245395
- Icarus on Earth (Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books, 2005). ISBN 1852246952
- Another Country: New and Selected Poems (Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books, 2008). ISBN 1852247942
[edit] References
- ^ Signals magazine site: Retrieved 11 April 2011.
- ^ Publisher's site biography: Retrieved 11 April 2011.
- ^ Retrieved 11 April 2011.
- ^ Brown, Mark (2008-08-01). "Emerging artists on shortlist for most valuable poetry prize". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/01/poetry. Retrieved 2011-04-11.. The collection was reviewed in The Guardian on March 18, 2008 Retrieved 4 April 2011. after the poem "Incident" from it had appeared there on 26 January 2008: Retrieved 4 April 2011.
