Jane Clarke (born 10 February 1961) is an Irish poet. She is the author of three poetry collections and an illustrated poetry booklet. The Irish novelist Anne Enright has praised her poems for their "clean, hard-earned simplicity and a lovely sense of line." [1]

Irish poet Jane Clarke is the author of three poetry collections and two poetry booklets. Her three collections were published by Bloodaxe Books, The River in 2015, When the Tree Falls in 2019 and A Change in the Air in 2023.

Jane Clarke, originally from Roscommon and now living in Wicklow, is an award-winning and widely published poet.

Jane Clarke is a distinguished biophysical chemist at the University of Cambridge. She is recognised internationally for her multidisciplinary studies that have advanced the understanding of protein folding and misfolding.

2025年1月31日 · On the Lyric Feature on Sunday 2nd February, at 6 pm, poet Jane Clarke presents Where the River Rises, exploring the Avonmore River in County Wicklow through poetry and conversation.

Jane Clarke’s voice is rooted in her land and the lives she shares: these poems gleam with the sound of their saying. Her rhythms of speech and spaces of reflective thought weave patterns which are fresh, but which we recognise as places in which we too may find ourselves.

Clarke’s debut poetry collection, The River (Bloodaxe Books, 2015), was the first work of poetry to be shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize. Bloodaxe has put out two other collections of Clarke’s work, When the Tree Falls (2019) and A Change in the Air (2023).

Irish poet Jane Clarke grew up on a farm in Co. Roscommon. Her first collection, The River, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015. It was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize, given for a distinguished work of fiction, non …

Jane is the author of nine best-selling books, was a columnist for over a decade for The Daily Mail, Observer, The Times and The Mail on Sunday, and regularly contributes on TV. She has worked with Jamie Oliver on several of his projects, including the School Meals revolution, which showed that people-power can bring about social change.