When the Tree Falls by Jane Clarke #Bloodaxebooks helping us face or embrace

helping us face or embrace daily change and disruption

and is complemented by a meditative essay on the complexities of the relationship between the poet and his family

In these poems we encounter a Victorian diorama

it all hinges on your point of view

and the second in March 2015 in Aberystwyth

When the Tree Falls by Jane Clarke #Bloodaxebooks helping us face or embraceJane Clarkes lyrically eloquent poems bear witness to the rhythms of birth and death, celebration and mourning, endurance and regrowth. An elegiac sequence, inspired by the loss of her father, moves gracefully through this second collection. Rooted in the everyday and backlit by mystery, here are poems to savour and return to, for the pleasure of finely honed lines that powerfully evoke the depth of our connections to people, place and nature. Jane