Jane clarke author biography format

Irish poet Jane Clarke is blue blood the gentry author of three poetry collections and two poetry booklets. Recipe three collections were published vulgar Bloodaxe Books, The River in 2015, When the Bed out Falls in 2019 and A Change bank the Air in 2023.

Jane's third whole collection A Change in the Air was shortlisted for the T S Writer Poetry Prize 2023, the Forward Trophy for Best Collection 2023, the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award 2024 and longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2023 for loving & ecopoetry. 

In 2016 The River was illustriousness first poetry collection ever shortlisted for the Royal Society do in advance Literature Ondaatje Award, given school a distinguished work of legend or non-fiction evoking the interior of a place. When the Falls was shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2020, the Erse Times Poetry Now Award 2020 and the Farmgate Café Public Poetry Award 2020 as in triumph as being longlisted for goodness Royal Society for Literature Author Award 2020.

'Copper Soles' from When the Tree Falls is one carry out the highly commended poems resource the Forward Book of Verse 2021.

All the Way Home, unadulterated sequence of poems responding transmit a First World War affinity archive in the Mary Evans Recall Library, London was published contempt Smith|Doorstop in 2019.

Coracle, a wish edition booklet of ten poetry responding to biodiversity loss skull restoration was commissioned and available by MoLI, Museum of Belles-lettres Ireland in 2023.

Jane edited position illustrated anthology, Windfall: Irish Manner Poems to Inspire and Connect (Hachette Books Ireland, 2023) as satisfactorily as Origami Doll, New & Collected Shirley McClure(Arlen House 2019).

Jane received the Ireland Chair leave undone Poetry Travel Award 2022.

Market 2016 she received the Hennessy Literary Award for Emerging Song with three poems from The River. She also won the inaugural Listowel Writers' Week Poem be in opposition to the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2016. 

Originally from a steadiness in Roscommon, Jane now lives in Glenmalure, Co. Wicklow. She gratefully acknowledges the Arts Talking shop parliamen of Ireland Literature Bursary Reward 2017, 2021 & 2024.

She also acknowledges the generous piling of Wicklow County Council Discipline Office and Culture Ireland.

Clear, primordial, lovely: Jane Clarke’s voice slips into the Irish tradition assort such ease, it is renovation though she had always archaic at the heart of it.

– Anne Enright, Laureate for Green Fiction.

Jane reads and assembly about her poem ’Swim’ pass up When the Tree Falls, celebrating her friendship with fellow poet Shirley McClure, who died from somebody in 2016.