Jane Clarke | |
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| Born | 10 February 1961 County Roscommon, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Education | BA (Hons), MPhil |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Notable work | The River, 2015; When the Tree Falls, 2019 |
Jane Clarke (born 10 February 1961) is an Irish poet. She is the author of three poetry collections and an illustrated poetry booklet. The Irish novelist Anne Enright has praised her poems for their "clean, hard-earned simplicity and a lovely sense of line." [1]
Jane Clarke grew up on a farm in Fuerty, County Roscommon. She attended Fuerty National School and the Convent of Mercy, Roscommon. She won an international scholarship to the Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia, where she studied for an International Baccalaureate for two years. She holds an Honours BA in English and Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin [2] and an MPhil in Writing from the University of South Wales. [3] She also holds a diploma in action research from the University of Bath and a diploma in group analytic psychotherapy from the Institute of Group Analysis, UK. [4]
Clarke worked in community development, adult education and psychotherapy in Dublin for thirteen years. In 1999 she and her partner Isobel O’Duffy moved to live in Glenmalure, County Wicklow. Five years later she began writing poetry and now combines writing with mentoring and creative writing tutoring.
Clarke is the author of three poetry collections, The River (Bloodaxe Books, 2015) When the Tree Falls (Bloodaxe Books, 2019) and A Change in the Air (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), as well as an illustrated poetry booklet, All the Way Home, written in response to a family archive of First World War photographs and letters (Smith|Doorstop, 2019).
Much of her work is, in the words of the British poet Carol Rumens, "rooted in the landscape of the west of Ireland and the farming context in which the lives of individual humans are played out asserts its own rhythm and narrative. In honouring this larger context Clarke enlarges her poetic field with an unobtrusive but important ecopoetic dimension." [5] She has been heralded by the Welsh poet Tony Curtis as "one of the most rewarding poets in these islands". [6]
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