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The River
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.95
ISBN13: 9781780372532
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: Jun 25 2015
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
The textured language, vivid imagery and musical rhythms of Jane Clarke's debut collection convey a distinctive voice and vision. With lyrical grace these poems contemplate shadow and sorrow as well as creativity and connection. The threat of loss is never far away but neither is delight in the natural world and what it offers. Rooted in rural life, this poet of poignant observation achieves restraint and containment while communicating intense emotions. The rivers that flow through the collection evoke the inevitability of change and our need to find again and again how to go on.
'These are subtle, tender poems of love, loss and growing up on a farm in rural Ireland... Every poem leaves something in the mind: the beauty and cruelty of farming, the life of land and animals, of parents remembered in their strength, and in their ageing. A quiet, powerful collection.' - Gillian Clarke
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