Full Description
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 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).
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
76 Notes
78 Acknowledgements
