A Change In The Air by Jane Clarke women'spoetry considers the challenge of asserting

considers the challenge of asserting a woman’s equal status within a patriarchal objectified culture

under the influence of the Church

The Sorry Tale of the Mignonette takes place in the West Country

An heir to Whitman

A book of exposure

A Change In The Air by Jane Clarke women'spoetry considers the challenge of assertingJane Clarke's third collection 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 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