Poetry
Winner of the Mslexia and PBS Pamphlet Prize 2018
Jane Lovell’s poems are both beautiful and disturbing. A deep feeling for the natural world is aligned with an acute lyric sensibility, as well as a profound ethical awareness of our responsibility for the planet and the devastation of its landscapes and vulnerable species.
Jane Lovell
Jane Lovell has been widely published in journals and anthologies. She won the Flambard Prize in 2015 and has been shortlisted for several awards including the Basil Bunting Prize, the Robert Graves Prize and Periplum Book Award. Her work is steeped in natural history, science and folklore but is essentially poetry that examines our relationship with the Earth and the vulnerability of its wildlife. Her pamphlets have been published by Against the Grain Press, Night River Wood and Coast to Coast to Coast. She also writes for Elementum Journal. Her latest pamphlet, This Tilting Earth, is the winner of the 2018 Mslexia Pamphlet Prize.
“She’s an artful poet, Jane Lovell; one who engages all your senses and sympathies. What a great collection this is.”
John Foggin, Write Out Loud
“There is something disturbing about these poems. They are mesmerising, and yet they also turn things around in ways you don’t expect, highlighting the strange, unfathomable similarities between humanity and the natural world. Many of these poems are rooted in the past, and yet they feel current, at a time when climate change is so often in the headlines.”
Rachel Carney, Created to Read
“These are fine, perceptive poems, carefully constructed – they invite return and deep consideration.”
Pauline Rowe, Burning Bright
“This is an exquisite collection of poems. Lovell brings the past to our attention with a vivid clarity. Every word is chosen with care, in this highly polished award-winning pamphlet.”
Rennie Halstead, Poetry Shed
“Jane Lovell’s latest pamphlet This Tilting Earth was the winner of the prestigious Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Competition, which leads to publication by Seren. Although it’s a short collection, the poems open themselves up to much wider vistas.”
Adele Ward, London Grip
‘Jane Lovell’s poems are crafted with a jeweller’s precision. They make visceral connections with the wild in a language all of her own.’
James Roberts
‘With a delicacy and rhythm that is mesmeric, Lovell places each word as a seed with the intent to sow a deeper awareness – so very needed in this time of grave ecological uncertainty. These poems read as a roll-call of loss; of creatures, of species and their landscapes; of our own human innocence degraded through cultural and scientific pursuits that have picked the earth clean of its once-teeming life. With scientific precision, Lovell binds together parcels of the lost, lifts them from the silts of a too- swiftly forgotten history, and gives them voice.’
Autumn Richardson
