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Jane Clarke

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Irish poet Jane Clarke grew up on a farm in Co. Roscommon. 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, and was followed by her second book-length collection from ...more

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	When the Tree Falls 4.46 avg rating — 35 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	All the Way Home it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect

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“As a poet I want to get the different elements
- emotion, thought, sound, images, form - working together to create the kind of poems I love to read; poems distilled to their essence, reticent and intimate, subtle and vivid, musical and memorable.”
― Jane Clarke

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“I think of a poem as an object in which the reader can find what they need. The poem lives in what it evokes for the reader, what it makes them see and feel.”
― Jane Clarke

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“I think of a poem as an object in which the reader can find what they need. The poem lives in what it evokes for the reader, what it makes them see and feel.”
― Jane Clarke

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