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Richard Perkins
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Date
22/05/2025 Time
Doors open at 6.30pm
Talk starts at 7pm.
Aim to finish by 8.45pm
Location
The Cedar Centre
Price
In-person £7.50 Zoom link £5
Born in 1793, Clare is now regarded as one of the most important poets of the natural world. He wrote many poems, essays, journals and letters. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and his sorrows at its disruption. Also a talented fiddler, he became, in effect, one of the first collectors of folk tunes. His house in Helpston is now a visitor attraction.
The talk will focus on John Clare’s life and particularly his local links, although no doubt Sam will not be able to ignore Clare’s poetry!
Sam Ward is an academic from Nottingham Trent University who is both a trustee and the archivist for the John Clare Society. He lectures extensively on John Clare and his contemporaries, focusing on Clare’s response to environmental change and issues of ownership and appropriation. In this talk he will give a concise overview of Clare’s life highlighting his response to agricultural enclosure, the advent of the railway, birdwatching, and plant collecting, his compilation of local folk tales and ballads and his participation in Roman excavations.
