Gillian Clarke

GC , a Welsh poet who began writing in the later twentieth century, has been called by the Literary Reviewone of the leading poets and poetry teachers of her generation.
Clarke, Gillian, and Sheenagh Pugh. “Poems”. The Literary Review: Re-Imagining Wales, edited by Tony Curtis and Christopher Meredith, Vol.
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, No. 2, Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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She has also written plays (sometimes for radio), short stories, a libretto, non-fiction, reviews, translation, and poems for children, and has edited anthologies and a poetry journal.
Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer.
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Somewhat blurry colour photo of Gillian Clarke standing at a lectern with a microphone. She is wearing something dark, with glasses, and has loose shoulder-length blonde hair.

Milestones

8 June 1937

Gillian Williams (later GC ) was born in Cardiff; she seems to have been an only child.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

By November 1982

GC published a poetry volume, Letter from a Far Country, whose title poem had been first written for radio, and broadcast in 1978 as a half-hour programme.
This volume is dated by the Bodleian Library 's acquisition stamp.
Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer.
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Biography

Birth and Background

8 June 1937

Gillian Williams (later GC ) was born in Cardiff; she seems to have been an only child.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
40
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

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