A Change in the Air by Jane Clarke (English) Paperback Book

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Jane Clarke's third collection is far-reaching and yet precisely rooted in time and place, exploring how people, landscape and culture shape us. Voices of the past and present show courage in the face of poverty, prejudice, war and exile and everyday losses in what is essentially a book of love poems to our beautiful, fragile world.

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Jane Clarke's third collection is far-reaching and yet precisely rooted in time and place. In luminous language her poems explore how people, landscape and culture shape us. Voices of the past and present reverberate with courage and resilience in the face of poverty, prejudice, war and exile and the everyday losses of living. Across six sequences these intimate poems of unembellished imagery accrue power and resonance in what is essentially a book of love poems to our beautiful, fragile world. A Change in the Air follows Jane Clarke's widely praised previous collections The River (2015) and When the Tree Falls was longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2023 and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023. It is shortlisted theT.S. Eliot Prize 2023.

Author Biography

Jane Clarke was born in 1961 and grew up on a farm in County Roscommon. She lives in Glenmalure, County Wicklow, where she combines writing with her work as a creative writing tutor and group facilitator, and has a background in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Her work has beenshortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize,shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize, the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and the Farmgate Caf National Poetry Award 2020. She has published three collections with Bloodaxe, The River (2015), When the Tree Falls (2019) and A Change in the Air was longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2023 and shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023. It was also shortlisted for theT.S. Eliot Prize 2023.

Table of Contents

10 After11 Butter for Queens12 Raspberries13 District Nurse14 Dressing My Mother for Her Grandson's Wedding15 Given16 Becoming17 All the horses she's ever loved18 Eggs19 All she needed20 Milk21 The Lookout22 The ArchPIT PONIES OF GLENASAN25 Christmas Morning26 Pit Ponies of Glendasan27 The Pay28 MullacorWHEN ALL THIS IS OVER31 September 191432 In the dugout33 The Game34 After we're gone35 Bouchavesnes36 Priam of Troy37 Ling38 When all this is over39 Snow40 PianistYOU COULD SAY IT BEGINS42 You could say it begins44 Crossings45 Flight47 Family Bible48 When the sun51 The Dipper52 Lazy Beds53 skein54 Passage55 Wildre56 Rowan57 Refuge58 Recipe for a bog59 spawn60 At Purteen Harbour61 Little Tern Colony, Kilcoole63 Mater Misericordiae64 The Key65 Spalls66 Her rst67 Wife68 Ballinabarney69 First Earlies70 Shepherd71 Fences72 Thief in April73 Stepping in74 June76 Notes78 Acknowledgements

Review

The poems are plain-spoken and restrained: they resist easy consolation. Their austerity serves to intensify the unmediated emotion they almost don't want to capture… a poem might be born of personal loss, but, once completed and published, it has entered a different timespan, and becomes the forge where other minds are shaped and brightened. -- Carol Rumens * The Guardian, on When the Tree Falls *Her observation of nature is...precise, her poems are…honed to the bone. Clarke knows exactly how much to withhold so that the understated artful phrases echo eloquently across the white space of the unsaid. -- Martina Evans * The Irish Times *The Irish poet Jane Clarke has followed a great debut collection with an even better second book. When the Tree Falls talks about her farming father in his last years. It delivers a clean, hard-earned simplicity and a lovely sense of line. -- Anne Enright * The Irish Times (Books of the Year 2019) *A poet who blends the contemporary with a great sense of the ancient and the rural… There is no sentimentality, no ornamentation; every word is incredibly honed and carries a really deep emotional weight. -- Jessica Traynor * Arena, RTE 1, on When the Tree Falls *

Long Description

Jane Clarke's third collection is far-reaching and yet precisely rooted in time and place. In luminous language her poems explore how people, landscape and culture shape us. Voices of the past and present reverberate with courage and resilience in the face of poverty, prejudice, war and exile and the everyday losses of living. Across six sequences these intimate poems of unembellished imagery accrue power and resonance in what is essentially a book of love poems to our beautiful, fragile world. A Change in the Air follows Jane Clarke's widely praised previous collections The River (2015) and When the Tree Falls (2019).

Review Quote

' When the Tree Falls confirms Jane Clarke's position as one of the most rewarding poets in these islands: she knows how to cut a line, how to shape words to the right instrument and then to make that thing sing.' - Tony Curtis, Poetry Wales (Poetry Books of the Year 2019)

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Third collection by Irish poet with an Irish American readership. Jane Clarke's third collection is far-reaching and yet precisely rooted in time and place, exploring how people, landscape and culture shape us. Across six sequences these intimate poems of unembellished imagery accrue power and resonance in what is essentially a book of love poems to our beautiful, fragile world. Her first collection, The River (2015, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize, given for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry evoking the spirit of a place. Her second book-length collection, When the Tree Falls (2019), was shortlisted for the 2020 Pigott Poetry Prize, the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and the Farmgate Caf

Details ISBN1780376596 Author Jane Clarke Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1780376596 ISBN-13 9781780376592 Publisher Bloodaxe Books Ltd Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-05-25 Imprint Bloodaxe Books Ltd Place of Publication Tyne and Wear Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2023-05-25 UK Release Date 2023-05-25 Pages 80 Audience General DEWEY 821.92 AU Release Date 2024-01-01 Edition Description Paperback original We've got this

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