This is the first book-length study of John Skelton (?1460-1529) for almost twenty years, and the first to link his poetic theory with his practice as a writer and translator. Reassessing Skelton's place in the English literary canon, it suggests the need to reconsider the conventional distinction between "Medieval" and "Renaissance" poetics.

John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak (Oxford English Monographs)

Literature & Fiction

Griffiths, Jane

British & Irish

Clarendon Press

Religious Studies for AQA: St Marks Gospel Foundation Edition (GCSE Religious Studies for AQA)

Children's Books

Geddes, Gordon D.

Cleave, Joanne

Religions

Heinemann

The houses and landscapes of childhood exert a strong presence in Silent in Finisterre. Recalled by name, in incantation, or described in ways that recapture their irreducible reality to a child for whom they are the totality of the world, they become a kind of memory theatre: for Jane Griffiths physical things are remembered both for their own sake and to explore how they continue to shape the self. Style impresses as much as content in her resonantly evocative poems, with sentences played against line breaks to create constant small disruptions of the expected sense, while predictable phrases and forms of words are summoned only to be rewritten. Here language is not a transparent means of conveying a message but a medium that - no less than charcoal or oil paint - materially affects what is expressed through it. Form and subject are as inextricably entwined as 'the echo of port in the night's starboard, / the terra firma that is silent in Finisterre'. Jane Griffiths' AnotherCountry: New & Selected Poems was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2008, and followed by Terrestrial Variations in 2012. Silent in Finisterre shows her extending her explorations of people and place with delight at being in the world, despite the threat of loss. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Silent in Finisterre

Poetry

Bloodaxe Books

A poetry collection on inheritance, loss, and the relationship between real and imagined lives. In Little Silver, moments of crisis - a near-drowning, a fall down a mine-shaft, the death of a friend - prompt reflection on the stories 'we tell ourselves about our / selves', and on the sheer strangeness of existing in our bodies and in time. The book's title sequence responds to the recent demolition of Jane Griffiths' childhood home, whose absence appears as 'a little silvering between the trees'. Setting its absence against the memory of 'Little Silver', a small enclave of houses in Exeter that she passed on the way home from school (and whose name fascinated her), she considers the gap between the two as the space of the imagination: the origins of her writing. Other poems centre on the theme of childlessness and the relationship between that and other kinds of making; a sequence centred on conversations between an artist and her imaginary children concludes when the daughter asks 'So if we existed the tree could stand alone?' The emphasis in these poems is on inventiveness and endeavour, on lifelines and human traces.

Little Silver (Bloodaxe Books)

Suitable for beginners and gardening gurus alike, this book offers advice, time-saving tips, and step-by-step instructions. It provides information on nearly 100 vegetables and herbs.

Jane's Delicious Garden

Sunbird Publishers Ltd

The shortest food mile is from your garden to your kitchen table – or from your local farmers’ market to your home. But what do you do if you have an abundance of harvest and don’t know how to make the most of it all? Jane’s Delicious Kitchen is a fun, inspiring and practical cooking journey through the seasons – whether you grow your own food or buy seasonal produceWhether you grow your own food or buy seasonal produce, this gorgeous cookbook is filled with practical advice, time-saving tips and over 100 mouth-watering and individually photographed recipes, this feast of a book is about making the most of seasonal bounty. Whether you want to preserve summer’s harvest at its peak of flavor or let spring’s freshest ingredients shine in simple yet sumptuous dishes, Jane’s Delicious Kitchen is for gourmet gardeners and novices alike.This luscious book is a celebration of the cycles of nature.

Jane's Delicious Kitchen: Harvesting, Preserving and Cooking Seasonal Food

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Canning & Preserving

Jonathan Ball Pub.

Jane's delicious A-Z of vegetables: A guide to growing organic vegetables in South Africa

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

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