{"product_id":"a-change-in-the-air-paperback","title":"A Change in the Air - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJane Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Clarke's third collection is far-reaching and yet precisely rooted in time and place.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eA Change in the Air\u003c\/i\u003e follows Jane Clarke's widely praised previous collections \u003ci\u003eThe River\u003c\/i\u003e (2015) and \u003ci\u003eWhen the Tree Falls\u003c\/i\u003e (2019). \u003cem\u003eA Change in the Air\u003c\/em\u003e was longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2023 \u003cbr\u003eand shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023. It is shortlisted the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1961 and grew up on a farm in County Roscommon. She lives in Glenmalure, County Wicklow, where she combines writing with her work as a creative writing tutor and group facilitator, and has a background in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Her work has been shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize, shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize, the \u003ci\u003eIrish Times \u003c\/i\u003ePoetry Now Award and the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award 2020. She has published three collections with Bloodaxe, \u003ci\u003e The River\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003eWhen the Tree Falls\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and \u003ci\u003eA Change in the Air\u003c\/i\u003e (2023). \u003cem\u003eA Change in the Air\u003c\/em\u003e was longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2023 \u003cbr\u003eand shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023. It was also shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 08, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759138046240,"sku":"9781780376592","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f1c3329ed667265244dade69a9d5b978.webp?v=1780143181","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-change-in-the-air-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}