Welcome to Jane Clarke's Poetry website
Originally from a farm in Roscommon, Jane Clarke now lives near Glenmalure, Co. Wicklow. She has had poems published in Envoi, Southword, THE SHOp, Cyphers, The Stinging Fly, Crannog, The Stony Thursday Book, Revival and is working on her first collection. Jane has won a number of prizes including Listowel Writers Week (2007), iYeats (2010) and was runner-up in the 2009 Fish Poetry Prize and the 2010 Windows Publications Prize.
Jane’s poems have a two-fold quality of tenderness – not simply their affectionate respect for people and for ways of life, but also the courage to go close to the raw places, facing the grief and unease which comes from loving what can be or already has been lost.
- Philip Gross, Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2009
News
Come along to the Irish launch of Tokens for the Foundlings with readings from Gillian Clarke, Tony Curtis, Tom Lavelle and Jane Clarke on May 17th at 7p.m. in the Irish Writers Centre. Jane has two poems in this anthology about childhood which is published by Seren for the benefit of the Foundlings Museum in London. The book is divided into three sections, concerning orphans and foundlings, infancy and early childhood and includes poems by Carol Ann Duffy, Helen Dunmore, Stephen Knight, Don Patterson, Elaine Feinstein, Dannie Abse, Seamus Heaney, David Harsent, Carol Rumens, Michael Longley and George Szirtes among many others, all of whom have donated their work.
Jane will be performing with Catch the Moon at the Boyle Arts Festival at 8p.m. on 2nd August 2012. Entrance: E10
