I have been researching the village folk, with whom John Clare lived, for several years now and publishing my research in my essay series ‘John Clare’s Contemporaries’, so I loved this poetry collection. It focuses primarily on the lives of non-literary and non-literate people that Clare knew well; people who’ve tended to be marginalised in other collections and histories. Poems such as ‘To the memory of James … Continue reading Clare’s People: review by Nic Wilson

The John Clare Society is pleased to announce the publication of a new selection of Clare’s poetry and prose edited by Mike Mecham, with illustrations by Petra Wonham and John Bangay. Justly renowned for poems about the natural world, this anthology broadens our view of Clare’s work by exploring the people inhabiting his world, revealing in the process both his deep humanity and sharp social … Continue reading Clare’s People – a new publication