Hello
Currently, I'm excited about:​
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- Finalising my poetry pamphlet Coracle due out with Live Canon
- https://www.livecanon.co.uk/store/product/coracle-jane-thomas
- My summer residency at OVADA gallery
- Working with The Oxford Nature Festival and Masters
- Continuing as a NED at a national charity, volunteering at PEN​​​​
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“This is a collection we urgently need, examining the politics of care with nuance and generosity. Jane’s work is certain to touch (and change) the lives of many.”
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“How do you find a poetic form for Alzheimer’s? Jane Thomas takes on this challenge with all of the seriousness, playfulness and mental elasticity required to care for a loved one. Like the brain itself, her poetic forms melt and shift; words slip away or bubble to the surface, images disintegrate yet find new meaning within that dissolution, and beauty is salvaged from the fragments. A work of huge invention and heart.”
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“This new collection is beautifully empathetic, imaginative, and original. She joins her father on his journey through Alzheimer’s, his once keen code-breaking intelligence slowly eroded by the illness. She artfully evokes the specific impairments, and the way society deals with and sometimes denies the illness. More than merely memoir, this collection reaches out from the personal while remaining warmly within the family circle.”