When the Tree Falls by Jane Clarke #Bloodaxebooks it all hinges on your

it all hinges on your point of view

In these poems we encounter a Victorian diorama

Dinescu was liberated from house arrest by a large crowd in Bucharest who carried him triumphantly to the national television building

'…this is poetry of exceptional beauty and accomplishment… a marvellous kind of arrival

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

When the Tree Falls by Jane Clarke #Bloodaxebooks it all hinges on yourJane 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