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Ideal for readers who appreciate thoughtful, emotionally rich poetry that engages with culture, history, and the natural world. Fans of contemporary poetry collections with reflective and resilient themes will find much to admire in this celebrated work.
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, 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, which was longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2023 and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023. It is also shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023.
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Critics praise Clarke's poetry for its restraint and emotional intensity, noting how her precise observation and artful understatement give her work a profound eloquence. Carol Rumens of The Guardian highlights the poems' ability to transform personal loss into a wider human connection, while Martina Evans of The Irish Times commends the honed, elegant phrasing. Anne Enright describes Clarke's work as delivering clean simplicity and deep emotional weight, a sentiment echoed by Jessica Traynor who notes the blend of contemporary with ancient themes without sentimentality.
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ISBN: 9781780376592
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 May 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Edition: Paperback original
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 8.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 80
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About the Author
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 Cafe 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.
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