Nightwind

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Nightwind by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 4, 2023. ------ Clare had bought a copy of James Thomson's The Seasons and began to write poems and sonnets. In an attempt to hold off his parents' eviction from their home, Clare offered his poems to a local bookseller, Edward Drury, who sent them to his cousin, John Taylor of the Taylor & Hessey firm, which had published the work of John Keats. Taylor published Clare's Poems Desc