Gillian Clarke (born 8 June 1937) is a poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator (from Welsh).[1]
Clarke was born in Cardiff Cardiff (pronounced /ˈkɑrdɪf/ , Welsh: Caerdydd (info)) is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for Wales. According to recent estimates, the and brought up in Cardiff and Penarth Penarth is a town and seaside resort in the Vale of Glamorgan , Wales (Cymru) 5.2 miles (8.4 kilometres) south west from the Welsh capital city of Cardiff (Caerdydd) and lying on the north shore of the Severn Estuary (Afon Hafren) at the southern end of Cardiff Bay. Penarth is the second largest town in the Vale of Glamorgan, next only to the, though for part of the Second World War she was in Pembrokeshire Pembrokeshire is a county in the southwest of Wales. Although both of her parents were native Welsh speakers, she was brought up speaking only English, and she learnt to speak Welsh as an adult. After graduating in English from University of Wales, Cardiff Cardiff University is a university located in the Cathays Park area of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. It received its Royal charter in 1883 and is a member of the Russell Group of Universities. The university is consistently recognised as providing the best university education in Wales. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, almost 60 per, she spent a year working for the BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation , is the largest broadcasting network in the world. The BBC is a public service broadcaster that operates under a Royal Charter. Within the UK, it is funded principally by an annual television licence fee, which is charged to all United Kingdom households, companies and organisations using equipment capable of in London. She then returned to Cardiff where she married and had a daughter, Catrin - about whom she has written a poem of the same name - and two sons. She worked as an English teacher, first in the Reardon-Smith Nautical College, and later in Newport Newport is a city and unitary authority area in Wales. Standing on the banks of the River Usk, it is located about 12 miles (19 km) east of Cardiff, and is the largest urban area within the historic county boundaries of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent. The City of Newport, which includes rural areas as well as the built up area, is College of Art. In the mid 1980s she moved to rural Ceredigion Ceredigion is a county and former kingdom in mid-west Wales. In extent it is more or less identical to the historic county of Cardiganshire, and it was reconstituted as a county under that name in 1996, reverting to Ceredigion a day later, west Wales with her second husband, after which time she spent some years as a creative writing Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems. Writing for the screen and stage, screenwriting and playwriting tutor at the University of Glamorgan. Her poetry is studied by GCSE and A Level students throughout Britain. She has given poetry readings and lectures in Europe and the United States, and her work has been translated into ten languages.[1] A considerable number of her poems are used in the GCSE AQA Anthology.
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 the current president of Tŷ Newydd.
Several of her books have received the 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.
Gillian Clarke became the third National Poet for Wales in 2008.[2]
Gillian is currently reading her poetry for teenagers who are taking their English GCSEs. 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.
Publications
- 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 Owain Glyndŵr , or Owain Glyn Dŵr, anglicised by William Shakespeare as Owen Glendower and also sometimes styled Owain IV of Wales (c. 1354 or 1359 – c. 1416) by modern historians, was a Welsh ruler and the last native Welsh person to hold the title Prince of Wales. He instigated an ultimately unsuccessful but long-running revolt against. (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
- At the Source (Carcanet Press) May 2008. ISBN 978 1 857549 86 7
- Heron at Port Talbot
References
External links
- Gillian Clarke
- Gillian Clarke Information on Gillian Clarke from Inspirational Wales
- http://www.helium.com/items/852076-sittingby-gillian-clarkegillian-clarkes
- Carcanet Press - Gillian Clarke's publisher
- Review of Gillian Clarke in the Guardian
- Gillian Clarke poetry workshop in the Guardian
Categories: 1937 births | Anglo-Welsh poets | Alumni of Cardiff University | Academics of the University of Glamorgan | Living people Possibly living people, disappeared people and dead people are not included here, including the recently deceased, for which see Category:2010 deaths and preceding categories listing deaths for 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, etc | People from Cardiff Categories: Cardiff | People by city or town in Wales | People from Glamorgan | People by capital | Welsh-speaking people
