A Language not to be Betrayed

“I should use, as the trees and birds did,/A language not to be betrayed” is from the Edward Thomas poem “I Never Saw that Land Before”. Poets living locally read work about the landscapes that have informed their lives and work.

A Language not to be Betrayed sees the launch of Ian Clarke's new pamphlet 'Staying On'.

Commenting on Staying On, David Mark Williams writes:
‘With these consummate poems, both elegiac and celebratory, Ian Clarke establishes himself unequivocally in the first order of poets.’

And Maggie Butt comments:
‘Breathtaking images and perfectly chosen words capture the richness of nature and of memory. These are elegiac, musical poems of crystal clarity and vision, poems which resurrect the past and hold it in the light

Ian Clarke is a Fenland ex pat poet living in Harrogate, North Yorkshire 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) . He has read at the Poetry Café, London.