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). A Change in the Air was longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2023 and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023. It is shortlisted the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781780376592
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Publication Date: 08-08-2023
Pages: 80
Product Dimensions: 6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
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 been shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize, shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize, the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and the Farmgate Café 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 (2023). 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 the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
10 After 11 Butter for Queens 12 Raspberries 13 District Nurse 14 Dressing My Mother for Her Grandson’s Wedding 15 Given 16 Becoming 17 All the horses she’s ever loved 18 Eggs 19 All she needed 20 Milk 21 The Lookout 22 The Arch
PIT PONIES OF GLENASAN 25 Christmas Morning 26 Pit Ponies of Glendasan 27 The Pay 28 Mullacor
WHEN ALL THIS IS OVER 31 September 1914 32 In the dugout 33 The Game 34 After we’re gone 35 Bouchavesnes 36 Priam of Troy 37 Ling 38 When all this is over 39 Snow 40 Pianist
YOU COULD SAY IT BEGINS 42 You could say it begins 44 Crossings 45 Flight 47 Family Bible 48 When the sun
51 The Dipper 52 Lazy Beds 53 skein 54 Passage 55 Wildfire 56 Rowan 57 Refuge 58 Recipe for a bog 59 spawn 60 At Purteen Harbour 61 Little Tern Colony, Kilcoole
63 Mater Misericordiae 64 The Key 65 Spalls 66 Her first 67 Wife 68 Ballinabarney 69 First Earlies 70 Shepherd 71 Fences 72 Thief in April 73 Stepping in 74 June