Bedlam Cowslip
- Author Name: Jeanette Lynes
- Award Year: 2016
- Publisher: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
- Publication Date: 2015
- ISBN: 9781928088059
- Author Website: https://jeanettelynes.wordpress.com/
- Tags: Shortlist: Book of the Year Award, Shortlist: Poetry Award, Winner: Poetry Award
About the Book
In this new collection, Jeanette Lynes turns her attention to the life and work of John Clare (1793–1864), the renowned poet of the countryside and one of England’s greatest working-class bards. In these poems, the Romantic world of Clare – strewn with wildflowers and dizzy with birdsong – is visited by a new, postmodern voice, and the conversation that ensues is both profound and dazzling. Painstakingly researched and deftly crafted, these poems share Clare’s loves, ambitions, rages and failures. Lynes has created an uplifting poetic biography on a bright poetic star that has been rising for over a century.
About the Author
Bedlam Cowslip: The John Clare Poems is Jeanette Lynes’ seventh book of poetry. Her poems have been shortlisted for The Pat Lowther Memorial Award, The Matrix Lit POP Award and Room Magazine’s poetry contest, among others. They have received The Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award and The New Quarterly’s Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Award. Jeanette’s novel, The Factory Voice, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a ReLit Award. Jeanette lives in Saskatoon where she directs the M.F.A. in Writing at the University of Saskatchewan.