The Field in Winter by David Clarke Lautus Press and an often understated tenderness

and an often understated tenderness

launching her literary career with his announcement that St Francis was dictating verses to a housewife in the provincial backwater of Minas Gerais

most of them newly commissioned for this project

the locus shifts farther out into mythic space with a parallel narrative from the Greek world that both mirrors and interweaves with the first half’s here-and-now

precise in its use of language and yet passionately engaged

The Field in Winter by David Clarke Lautus Press and an often understated tendernessThe Field in Winter, the third collection of poetry by David Clarke, winner of the Michael Marks Award, elegantly reflects on memory, time, and the very particular landscape of grieving. The book takes the form of a calendar of grief, exploring ageing, losing a parent, and how we manage the changing nature of things. A poem from previous collection, The Europeans, was selected by the Guardian as a Poem of the Week. The collection was also reviewed in