The Hare's Corner: Making Space for Nature by Jane Clarke & Catherine Cleary

Highlights inspiring stories of Irish communities restoring habitats, fostering biodiversity, and reconnecting people with nature.

The Hare's Corner celebrates farmers, families, schools and community groups all over Ireland who are restoring habitats, reviving biodiversity and reconnecting people with the land.

Uplifting stories and poems interwoven with enchanting illustrations and photographs bear witness to the renewal and well-being that can blossom when we make space for nature in our lives.

Named after the traditional farming practice of leaving field corners for wildlife, The Hare's Corner is inspired by small, thoughtful actions that can spark powerful change. Readers are invited to rediscover the beauty and wonders of their own landscapes, urban and rural.

Jane Clarke, originally from Co. Roscommon and now living in Co. Wicklow, is an award-winning poet and editor. She has published three highly acclaimed poetry collections with Bloodaxe Books. The River (2015), When the Tree Falls (2019)  and A Change in the Air (2023), which was shortlisted from both the Forward Prize for Best collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2023. Her anthology Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect (Hachette Books Ireland), illustrated by Jane Carkill, was published in 2023.

Catherine Cleary is a journalist, author and broadcaster. She began her career as a reporter with The Irish Times in 1994 and became security correspondent of The Sunday Tribune. She met Alice Leahy in the 1990s while reporting on social issues around crime and poverty. Catherine's publications include: Life Sentence, Murder Victims and their Families (2004) and A Month of Somedays, How One Woman made the most of Now (2012). She co-wrote Counter Culture, The Sheridans' Guide to Cheese in 2015. She also co-wrote and presented the RTÉ radio series History on a Plate with historian Juliana Adelman. She has been writing a weekly restaurant review
in The Irish Times for the past seven years.

Jane Carkill is an illustrator and textile designer living in the heart of the Burren. Her illustrations have been showcased in various highly acclaimed publications, including F íos by Darragh McKeon (The Gentian Press, 2025), The Keeper of the Bees: Bees and Beekeeping in Irish Folklore by Eimear Chaomhánach (O'Brien Press, 2024), Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect edited by Jane Clarke (Hachette Books Ireland, 2023), and Wild Embrace by Anja Murray (Hachette Books Ireland, 2023). She is a member of the non-profit organisation Illustrators Ireland. Her debut authored book Watercolor in the Woods (Page Street Publishing, Macmillan) was published in 2024.