Jane Kirwan - Monday, March 1st, 2004
Jane Kirwan's work has been much praised and was recognised
with an Arts Council writers award in 2002.
 She was born
in England of Irish parents but now lives in Prague. Themes
of exile, barriers, boundaries permeate her writing. She
has written short stories and two novels as well as poetry.
Her second poetry collection explores the relationship between
her and a Czech refugee, ex-political prisoner. As the back
cover says, it follows a narrative that begins with desire,
ends with displacement.
 R.V Bailey said of the first collection, Stealing the
Eiffel Tower, "she is a fine, exciting, feet-off-the-ground
poet. The poet George Szirtes calls The Man who Sold Mirrors
a ""mixture of romantic sensuality and intellect."
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