Crossing Places

As with all of Nicki Griffin’s poems a sense of place pervades this collection. Voices carry along rivers, a boat turns on its anchor, gardens flush with roses, borders are crossed. It is full of points of no return, of transformations: buildings that seemed solid and permanent, tumbling or being taken apart, the natural world in constant flux, death and its interminable aftermath. There is an understanding that chaos is never far away, but also the sense of the ties that bind us all and, finally, redemption and the possibility of resurrection.