When the Tree Falls by Jane Clarke (English) Paperback Book

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When the Tree Falls is Jane Clarke's second collection. These lyrically eloquent poems bear witness to the rhythms of birth and death, celebration and mourning, endurance and regrowth. An elegiac sequence, inspired by the loss of her father, moves gracefully through this second collection.

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Jane Clarke's lyrically eloquent poems bear witness to the rhythms of birth and death, celebration and mourning, endurance and regrowth. An elegiac sequence, inspired by the loss of her father, moves gracefully through this second collection. Rooted in the everyday and backlit by mystery, here are poems to savour and return to, for the pleasure of finely honed lines that powerfully evoke the depth of our connections to people, place and nature. Jane Clarke's first collection, The River, was published by Bloodaxe in 2015 to both critical and public acclaim.

Author Biography

Jane Clarke was born in 1961 and grew up on a farm in Co. Roscommon. She lives with her partner in Glenmalure, Co. Wicklow, where she combines writing with her work as a creative writing tutor and group facilitator. She holds a BA in English and Philosophy from Trinity College, Dublin, and an MPhil in Writing from the University of South Wales, and has a background in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Her first collection, The River, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015. It 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. In 2016 she won the Hennessy Literary Award for Emerging Poetry and the inaugural Listowel Writers' Week Poem of the Year Award. She was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland Literary Bursary in 2017. All the Way Home, Jane's illustrated booklet of poems in response to a First World War family archive held in the Mary Evans Picture Library, London, was published by Smith|Doorstop in 2019. Her second book-length collection, When the Tree Falls (Bloodaxe Books, 2019), was shortlisted for the 2020 Pigott Poetry Prize, the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and the Farmgate Caf National Poetry Award 2020, as well as being longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize 2020. Jane also edited Origami Doll, New and Collected Shirley McClure (Arlen House, 2019) and guest-edited The North 61: Irish Issue (The Poetry Business, 2019) with Nessa O'Mahony. In May 2020 Jane Clarke presented The Miners' Way, a half-hour feature for Radio 4 that was chosen for Radio 4's Pick of the Week. This included a new sequence of poems as well as one from When the Tree Falls.

Table of Contents

11 Ryegrass12 He stood at the top of the stairs13 That I could14 The Rod15 Nettles16 Cattle Stick17 sculling18 Sika Whistle19 When winter comes20 Birthing the Lamb22 Some days23 The Hurley-maker24 Point of Departure25 In Glasnevin26 Those days27 Polling Station28 Metastasis29 Copper Soles30 you pull yourself up31 Swim32 willowherb33 The Roof Rack34 Camping at Bearna35 Hers36 The trouble37 Map38 Mammogram39 When he falls asleep40 Promise41 Barometer42 Planting Trees43 I've got you44 Together45 Blue Cards46 Cypress47 'At last! Are you here at last?'48 Night Nurse49 Respects50 Dunamon51 Moon52 Gone53 Lullaby54 When we left him55 Aftergrass56 The Finest Specimen58 The Yellow Jumper59 I imagine him telling me over the phone60 When the tree falls61 Kelly's Garden63 Notes

Review

The virtues of Jane Clarke's writing include a broad sympathy that never usurps the voice of the other, that guides the reader to understanding and respect; a pleasure in ingenious objects and crafts that is deftly transmitted; and a clarity which does not deny mystery but makes room for it. -- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin * Dublin Review of Books *Clarke registers with memorable cadence and verbal simplicity the changing pattern of the seasons as it shapes the daily life of a farm and, at the same time, the very human experience of loss, ambivalence and eternal impermanence. -- Peter Abbs * Resurgence & Ecologist *Clear, direct, lovely: Jane Clarke's voice slips into the Irish tradition with such ease, it is as though she had always been at the heart of it. -- Anne Enright

Review Quote

"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)

Description for Sales People

Jane Clarke did a series of readings to promote both her first collection The River and her new collection When the Tree Falls in the US, most recently with several engagement on the east coast in autumn 2019 in Washington, New York and other cities. These events and the book received coverage in the Washington Post. When the Tree Falls is shortlisted for two of Ireland's premier literary awards, the Irish Times/Poetry Now Award 2020 and the Farmgate Caf

Details ISBN1780374801 Author Jane Clarke Pages 64 Publisher Bloodaxe Books Ltd Year 2019 ISBN-10 1780374801 ISBN-13 9781780374802 Publication Date 2019-09-26 Language English Format Paperback DEWEY 821.92 UK Release Date 2019-09-26 Imprint Bloodaxe Books Ltd Place of Publication Tyne and Wear Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2019-09-26 Audience General AU Release Date 2020-01-01 We've got this

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