[2] In 2012, she left her position as senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Bristol to become a CUF Lecturer in medieval and early modern English literature at the University of Oxford and a tutorial fellow of Wadham College.
[3] According to her university page, Griffiths works primarily on the poetry and drama of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
[5] It was described by Adam Thorpe (The Guardian) as "sensuously wrought and even, at times, subtly erotic, her poems simultaneously evoke another level of pure abstraction, with words in place of coils of paint".
It was described by Sarah Broom in The Times Literary Supplement as "a major achievement, outstanding, complex and subtle in thought, supple of tone and piercing in its observation".
[8] 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.