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Encyclopedia > Gillian Clarke

Gillian Clarke (born 8 June 1937) is a Welsh poet writing in English. She was born in Cardiff. She was brought up in Cardiff and Penarth, though for part of the war she was in Pembrokeshire. After graduating in English from University of Wales, Cardiff, she spent a year working for the BBC in London. She returned to Cardiff where she married and had three children. She worked as an English teacher, first in the Reardon-Smith Nautical College, and later in Newport College of Art. In the mid 1980s she moved to rural Ceredigion, west Wales with her second husband, after which time she spent some years as creative writing tutor at the University of Glamorgan. June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Anglo-Welsh poetry is a subset of Anglo-Welsh literature. ... Cardiff (English:  Welsh: ) is the capital of Wales and its largest city. ... Cardiff (English:  Welsh: ) is the capital of Wales and its largest city. ... Penarth (Welsh: pen head, + garth cliff or hill, or arth bear) is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, lying on the Bristol Channel and Cardiff Bay. ... Pembrokeshire (Welsh: Sir Benfro) is a county in the southwest of Wales in the United Kingdom. ... The main building of Cardiff University Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Cardiff University Cardiff University (Welsh: Prifysgol Caerdydd) is a leading university located in the civic centre of Cardiff, Wales. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is one of the largest broadcasting corporations in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of more than £4 billion. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Newport (disambiguation). ... For other uses please see Ceredigion (disambiguation) Ceredigion is a county in Wales. ... Motto: (Welsh for Wales forever) Anthem: (Welsh for Land of My Fathers) Capital Cardiff (Caerdydd) Largest city Cardiff (Caerdydd) Official language(s) Welsh, English Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Rhodri Morgan AM Unification    - by Gruffudd ap Llywelyn 1056... Creative writing is a term used to distinguish certain imaginative or different types of writing from generic writing. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


She has published numerous collections of poetry for adults and children (see below, as well as dramatic commissions and numerous articles in a wide range of publications). She is a former editor of "Anglo-Welsh Review" (1975-84) and current president of Ty Newydd. Ty Newydd, the National Centre for Writing in Wales, is a renowned writing centre near Criccieth, Wales. ...


Several of her books have received the Poetry Book Society Recommendation. In 1999 Gillian Clarke received the Glyndwr Award for an "Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales" during the Machynlleth Festival. A considerable amount of her poems are used in the GCSE AQA Anthology. The Machynlleth Festival takes place in the Auditorium of The Tabernacle in late August every year. ... AQA logo The AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance) is the largest exam board in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. ... For the AQA Anthology at A-level see AQA Anthology (A-level). ...


Bibliography

Poetry

  • Snow on the Mountain. (Christopher Davies), 1971
  • The Sundial. (Gomer Press / Gwasg Gomer), 1978. ISBN 0-85088-540-X
  • Letter From a Far Country. (Carcanet Press), 1982
  • Selected Poems. (Carcanet Press), 1985 ISBN 0-85635-594-1
  • Letting in the Rumour. (Carcanet Press), 1989 ISBN 0-85635-757-X
  • The King of Britain's Daughter. (Carcanet Press), 1993. ISBN 1-85754-031-X
  • Collected Poems. (Carcanet Press), 1997. ISBN 1-85754-335-1
  • Five Fields. (Carcanet Press), 1998.ISBN 1-85754-401-3
  • The Animal Wall. Illustrated, for children. (Gomer Press / Gwasg Gomer) 1999 ISBN 1-85902-654-0
  • Nine Green Gardens. (Gomer Press / Gwasg Gomer), 2000. ISBN 1-85902-805-5
  • Owain Glyndŵr. (National Library of Wales), 2000. ISBN 1-86225-015-4
  • Making the Beds for the Dead (Carcanet Press) April 2004 ISBN 1-85754-737-3

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Gillian Clarke was born in Cardiff in 1937.
Clarke suggests that this "abandonment" is worse than that of the lover "cold in lonely/sheets" or the woman leaving a beloved partner, dead or dying, in the "terminal ward".
Gillian Clarke says that she was thinking of the funeral ships which the Celts once would push out to sea, bearing the bodies of their heroes.
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Gillian Clarke did not begin to publish poems until she was thirty-three, a mature woman, wife and mother, who was thoroughly attuned to the harmonies and nuances of living; so even her earliest poems exude a conscious vitality and fresh joy in life and in language.
Gillian Clarke's poetry is especially rich in these complex assonantal patternings, the hallmarks of the Celtic poetic tradition.
In 1999 Gillian Clarke received the Glyndwr Award for an "Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales" during the Machynlleth Festival.
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