Ian Clarke is a Fenland ex pat poet living in Harrogate, North Yorkshire but his heart is still in the flatlands of East Anglia. He has been published widely in various anthologies including: Writers of East Anglia, Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry, and at least twice in Otley Word Feast anthologies, also in Acumen, Envoi and online with Ink, Sweat and Tears. Recent publications include A Slow Stirring (Indigo Dreams, 2012) and BARD 132, a broadsheet in a completely different register available from Atlantean Publishing. Ian is a regular reader at Harrogate’s 'Poems, Prose and Pints'. |
Owl Lit by Ian Clarke |
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'Owl Lit' was the runner up in the Brian Dempsey Memorial Competition in 2017. Ian Clarke's poems are lyrical, economical, with not a word out of place or unneeded. His subject is the Fens and their people, where he grew up, and the wild landscape of the east coast of Britain. A poet with a remarkable ability to convey in a few telling words and images a place or a person, honestly and without needing to elaborate.
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