Gillian Clarke
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Gillian Clarke (born 8 June 1937) is a Welsh poet and playwright, who also edits, broadcasts, lectures and translates from Welsh into English. She co-founded Tŷ Newydd, a writers' centre in North Wales.[1]
Life
Gillian Clarke was born on 8 June 1937 in Cardiff.[2][3]
Career
After university, Clarke spent a year working for the BBC in London. She then returned to Cardiff, where she gave birth to her daughter, Catrin, and two sons. About Catrin she wrote a poem under her name. Clarke worked as an English teacher, first at the Reardon-Smith Nautical College and later at Newport College of Art.
In the mid-1980s she moved to rural Ceredigion, West Wales, with her second husband, after which she spent some years teaching creative writing at the University of Glamorgan. In 1990 she was a co-founder of Tŷ Newydd, a writers' centre in North Wales.
Her poetry is studied by GCSE and A Level students throughout the United Kingdom. A considerable number of her poems are used in the GCSE AQA Anthology. She has given poetry readings and lectures in Europe and the United States; her work has been translated into ten languages.[1] Some of her English poems were translated into Chinese by Peter Jingcheng Xu and published in the journal Foreign Literature and Art (Issue 6, December 2016).[4]
Clarke has published numerous collections of poetry for adults and children (see below), as well as dramatic commissions and articles in a wide range of publications. She is a former editor of The Anglo-Welsh Review (1975–84) and the current president of Tŷ Newydd. Several of her books have received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. In 1999, Gillian Clarke received the Glyndŵr Award for an "Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales" during the Machynlleth Festival. She was on the judging panel for the 2008 Manchester Poetry Prize. Clarke reads her poetry for teenagers who are taking their English GCSE school exams. She is part of the GCSE Poetry Live team that also includes John Agard, Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy, Imtiaz Dharker, Moniza Alvi, Grace Nichols, Daljit Nagra and Choman Hardi.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In December 2013, Clarke was the guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. She has written over 100 poems during her career.[5]
Awards
Clarke was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2000.[6]
In 2008, Clarke became the third National Poet of Wales.[7] She held the post until 2016, when she was succeeded by Ifor ap Glyn.[8] In 2010 she was awarded the Queen's Template:Not a typo for Poetry and became the second Welsh person to receive the honour.[9]
In 2011 Clarke joined the Gorsedd of Bards.[10] In 2012 she received the Wilfred Owen Association Poetry award.[11]
The book Ice was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2012.[12]
Books
- Snow on the Mountain. (Christopher Davies), 1971
- The Sundial. (Gomer Press / Gwasg Gomer), 1978 Template:ISBN
- Letter From a Far Country. (Carcanet Press), 1982
- Selected Poems. (Carcanet Press), 1985 Template:ISBN
- Letting in the Rumour. (Carcanet Press), 1989 Template:ISBN
- The King of Britain's Daughter. (Carcanet Press), 1993 Template:ISBN
- Collected Poems. (Carcanet Press), 1997 Template:ISBN
- Five Fields. (Carcanet Press), 1998 Template:ISBN
- The Animal Wall. Illustrated, for children. (Gomer Press / Gwasg Gomer) 1999 Template:ISBN
- Nine Green Gardens. (Gomer Press / Gwasg Gomer), 2000 Template:ISBN
- Owain Glyndŵr. (National Library of Wales), 2000 Template:ISBN
- Making the Beds for the Dead (Carcanet Press) April 2004 Template:ISBN
- At the Source (Carcanet Press) May 2008 Template:ISBN
- A Recipe for Water (Carcanet Press) April 2009 Template:ISBN
- Ice (Carcanet Press October 2012) Template:ISBN
- Zoology (Carcanet Press July 2019) Template:ISBN
- Roots Home: Essays and a Journal (Carcanet Press March 2021) Template:ISBN
- The Hours (Broken Sleep Books April 2021) Template:ISBN (limited to 100)
- The Silence (Carcanet Press May 2024) Template:ISBN
See also
References
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External links
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- Profile at Poetry Archive with poems written and audio
- "The poet talks about her prose collection At the Source", BBC Woman's Hour, 13 May 2008 (audio, 10 mins)
- "Making Beds for the Dead", BBC Woman's Hour, 8 April 2004 (audio, 10 mins)
- Carcanet Press
- Review of Gillian Clarke in the Guardian
- Gillian Clarke poetry workshop in the Guardian
- Gillian Clarke poetry translated into Chinese in Foreign Literature and Art Template:Webarchive
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- 1937 births
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- Academics of the University of Glamorgan
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- Writers from Cardiff
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