A Change In The Air by Jane Clarke Spanish poetry revealing in the pleasures and

revealing in the pleasures and powers of the body and the transcendence of art

joy and glory to this singularly impressive debut

his enthusiasm is contagious

essential collection drawn from the poet's experience of the Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon

summoning us under to ‘listen … crouch down … press [a] hand against the white gloss shuddering’

A Change In The Air by Jane Clarke Spanish poetry revealing in the pleasures andJane 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