Jane clarke author biography

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, former Ireland Professor of Poetry.

Jane Clarke grew up on a farm in Co. Roscommon and now lives with her wife in Glenmalure, Co. Wicklow. Her first collection The River was published by Bloodaxe Booksin 2015.

Her second collection When the Tree Falls was published by Bloodaxe Books in September 2019. All the Way Home,an illustrated sequence of poems in response to a soldier's letters from the Front during World War 1, was published by Smith|Doorstop in April 2019, in collaboration with the Mary Evans Picture Library, London.

Coracle, a ten poem sequence responding to the climate crisis and biodiversity loss was comm