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Gillian Clarke was born on 8 June 1937 in Cardiff
Cardiff

Cardiff is the Capital , largest city and most populous Unitary authority#Wales in Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for many national cultural and sport institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of Welsh Assembly Government ....
 and is a poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator (from Welsh). She was brought up in Cardiff
Cardiff

Cardiff is the Capital , largest city and most populous Unitary authority#Wales in Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for many national cultural and sport institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of Welsh Assembly Government ....
 and Penarth
Penarth

Penarth is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan , Wales 5.2 miles south west from the Welsh capital city of Cardiff and lying on the north shore of the River Severn at the southern end of Cardiff Bay....
, though for part of the Second World War she was in Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire is a county in the South West Wales of Wales in the United Kingdom....
. 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

Cardiff University is a leading 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 ...
, she spent a year working for the BBC in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
.






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Gillian Clarke was born on 8 June 1937 in Cardiff
Cardiff

Cardiff is the Capital , largest city and most populous Unitary authority#Wales in Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for many national cultural and sport institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of Welsh Assembly Government ....
 and is a poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator (from Welsh). She was brought up in Cardiff
Cardiff

Cardiff is the Capital , largest city and most populous Unitary authority#Wales in Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for many national cultural and sport institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of Welsh Assembly Government ....
 and Penarth
Penarth

Penarth is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan , Wales 5.2 miles south west from the Welsh capital city of Cardiff and lying on the north shore of the River Severn at the southern end of Cardiff Bay....
, though for part of the Second World War she was in Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire is a county in the South West Wales of Wales in the United Kingdom....
. 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

Cardiff University is a leading 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 ...
, she spent a year working for the BBC in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
. 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

Newport is a City status in the United Kingdom and Administrative divisions of Wales in Wales, in the United Kingdom. Standing on the banks of the River Usk, located roughly between Cardiff and Bristol, it is the cultural capital and largest urban area in the Historic counties of Wales of Monmouthshire and is governed by the unitary authori...
 College of Art. In the mid 1980s she moved to rural Ceredigion
Ceredigion

Ceredigion is a Principal areas of Wales 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
Wales

native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
 with her second husband, after which time she spent some years as a creative writing
Creative writing

Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional writing, journalistic, Academic writing, and technical forms of literature....
 tutor at the University of Glamorgan
University of Glamorgan

The University of Glamorgan is a university based in Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales with campuses in Trefforest, Glyntaff, Merthyr Tydfil, Tyn y Wern and Cardiff....
. 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. A considerable number of her poems are used in the GCSE AQA
Assessment and Qualifications Alliance

AQA is an examination board in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It compiles specifications for and holds examinations in various subjects at General Certificate of Secondary Education, AS and Advanced Level ....
 Anthology
AQA Anthology

This article refers to the AQA Anthology at GCSEFor the AQA Anthology at A-level see AQA Anthology .The 'AQA Anthology' is a collection of poems and short texts which are studied in English schools for GCSE English and English Literature....
.

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 Ty Newydd
Ty Newydd

Ty Newydd, the National Centre for Writing in Wales, is a renowned writing centre at Llanystumdwy, near Cricieth, in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It is in the former home of David Lloyd George, the Welsh politician who served as British Prime Minister during the World War I....
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Several of her books have received the Poetry Book Society
Poetry Book Society

The Poetry Book Society was founded by T. S. Eliot in 1953 and publishes the quarterly poetry journal Bulletin.External links...
 Recommendation. In 1999 Gillian Clarke received the Glyndwr Award
Glyndwr Award

The Glyndwr Award is made for an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales. It is given by the Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust to pre-eminent figures in music, art and literature in rotation....
 for an "Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales" during the Machynlleth Festival
Machynlleth Festival

The Machynlleth Festival takes place in the Auditorium of The Tabernacle, Machynlleth in late August every year. During the week eminent performers take part in events ranging from recitals for children to jazz....
.

She is on the judging panel for the 2008 Manchester Poetry Prize
Manchester Poetry Prize

The Manchester Poetry Prize is a literary award celebrating excellence in creative writing. It was launched by Manchester Metropolitan University's Writing School in 2008, and is the first leg of the annual Manchester Writing Competition....
.

Gillian Clarke became the third National Poet for Wales
National Poet for Wales

The post of National Poet of Wales was established in May 2005 by Yr Academi Gymreig ? the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for Writers....
 in 2008.

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
    Carcanet Press

    Carcanet Press is a publisher, primarily of poetry, based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1969 by Michael Schmidt .Carcanet Press is now in its fourth decade....
    ), 1982


  • Selected Poems. (Carcanet Press
    Carcanet Press

    Carcanet Press is a publisher, primarily of poetry, based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1969 by Michael Schmidt .Carcanet Press is now in its fourth decade....
    ), 1985 ISBN 0-85635-594-1


  • Letting in the Rumour. (Carcanet Press
    Carcanet Press

    Carcanet Press is a publisher, primarily of poetry, based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1969 by Michael Schmidt .Carcanet Press is now in its fourth decade....
    ), 1989 ISBN 0-85635-757-X


  • The King of Britain's Daughter. (Carcanet Press
    Carcanet Press

    Carcanet Press is a publisher, primarily of poetry, based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1969 by Michael Schmidt .Carcanet Press is now in its fourth decade....
    ), 1993. ISBN 1-85754-031-X


  • Collected Poems. (Carcanet Press
    Carcanet Press

    Carcanet Press is a publisher, primarily of poetry, based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1969 by Michael Schmidt .Carcanet Press is now in its fourth decade....
    ), 1997. ISBN 1-85754-335-1


  • Five Fields. (Carcanet Press
    Carcanet Press

    Carcanet Press is a publisher, primarily of poetry, based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1969 by Michael Schmidt .Carcanet Press is now in its fourth decade....
    ), 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 Glyndwr
    Owain Glyndwr

    Owain Glyndwr , or Owain Glyn Dwr, anglicised by William Shakespeare into Owen Glendower and also sometimes styled Owain IV of Wales by modern historians, was a Wales ruler and the last native Welsh people to hold the title Prince of Wales....
    . (National Library of Wales), 2000. ISBN 1-86225-015-4


  • Making the Beds for the Dead (Carcanet Press
    Carcanet Press

    Carcanet Press is a publisher, primarily of poetry, based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1969 by Michael Schmidt .Carcanet Press is now in its fourth decade....
    ) April 2004 ISBN 1-85754-737-3


  • At the Source (Carcanet Press
    Carcanet Press

    Carcanet Press is a publisher, primarily of poetry, based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1969 by Michael Schmidt .Carcanet Press is now in its fourth decade....
    ) May 2008. ISBN 978 1 857549 86 7


  • Heron at Port Talbot


External links

  • Information on Gillian Clarke from Inspirational Wales