Jane Clarke: A Change in the Air (at Newcastle Poetry Festival 2024)

Jane Clarke read poems from her third collection A Change in the Air, published by Bloodaxe Books in May 2023, at Newcastle Poetry Festival. A Change in the Air was Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023, the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award 2024 and the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023, as well as being Longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2023.

A Change in the Air (https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/pro...) 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 the 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.