When the Tree Falls

Jane Clarke (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

64 Seiten

2019
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78037-480-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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 Café 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.

11 Ryegrass
12 He stood at the top of the stairs
13 That I could
14 The Rod
15 Nettles
16 Cattle Stick
17 sculling
18 Sika Whistle
19 When winter comes
20 Birthing the Lamb
22 Some days
23 The Hurley-maker
24 Point of Departure
25 In Glasnevin
26 Those days
27 Polling Station
28 Metastasis
29 Copper Soles
30 you pull yourself up
31 Swim
32 willowherb
33 The Roof Rack
34 Camping at Bearna
35 Hers
36 The trouble
37 Map
38 Mammogram
39 When he falls asleep
40 Promise
41 Barometer
42 Planting Trees
43 I’ve got you
44 Together
45 Blue Cards
46 Cypress
47 ‘At last! Are you here at last?’
48 Night Nurse
49 Respects
50 Dunamon
51 Moon
52 Gone
53 Lullaby
54 When we left him
55 Aftergrass
56 The Finest Specimen
58 The Yellow Jumper
59 I imagine him telling me over the phone
60 When the tree falls
61 Kelly’s Garden

63 Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	10.09.2019
Verlagsort	Tyne and Wear
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-78037-480-1 / 1780374801
ISBN-13	978-1-78037-480-2 / 9781780374802
Zustand	Neuware