REVIEWS
"A Spanish stonemason asks: when is a stone properly placed? And he answers his own question: when my impatience to once more readjust it has vanished. Jeremy Clarke writes like a Spanish stonemason; his poems are houses, towers, bridges..."
John Berger
"Jeremy Clarke's work, his world of words, shows such a light and sober touch; but there, alongside the everyday and familiar things, swim creatures of the deep and the dark. We see and hear things from a dream normality; a city, a country, of visions and rhythms, where the mundane transforms to the mythic, and the understated bears with grace the delicacy and strength of quotidian experience.”
Emily Young, sculptor
"Very moving… so acutely perceived.”
Jeremy Reed
“It is rare to find poetry that writes itself through the poet, and not the other way round. These are poems without pretension, without references to anything other than their subjects. They talk to us, as they are talking, in the absence of the poet. It is a strange, yet familiar experience; both individual and universal reflected by the fresh images in the poems.”
Abdulkareem Kasid
"No subject – however unlikely or fleeting – escapes his interest or compassion. His meticulous, melodious words illuminate something transcendental in the lowest of human circumstances.”
T. J. Adair
"A clarity of vision and tactility of imagery that matches Hopkins. Whatever he writes about – people, animals, things, places – it is as if he is seeing them from within. He doesn't impose his own expression, or even experience, upon them. The expression is of the thing in itself.”
Andrew Nicholson
