The 2026 issue of the John Clare Society Journal is out now. Issue 45, edited by Professor Simon Kővesi, includes the following articles:

• Trans-Species Empathy in John Clare’s ‘The Pettichaps Nest’ and Anna Letitia Barbauld’s ‘The Caterpillar’, by Cassandra Falke
• Anxious Trees Give Leaf: Reading John Clare in Lockdown, by Martin Kratz
• John Clare Reaches the Pacific, by Richard O’Brien
• The Phenomenology of Walking in John Clare’s Poems, by Xiaoxiao Ma
• ‘When Silence Husheth Other Themes’: John Clare, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and the Heath, by Jens Peters
• An Index of Significant Publication on John Clare, 2023-2025, by Andrew Hodgson and Erin Lafford

Plus reviews, contributor details and abbreviations.

The Journal is sent free to all members of the John Clare Society. To join us, please complete and submit the membership application to be found here.