Gillian Clarke

Standard Name: Clarke, Gillian
Birth Name: Gillian Williams
Married Name: 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, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 2001.
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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 editedanthologies and a poetry journal.
Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer, June 1997.
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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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Anne Stevenson
AS retains her belief in poetry's need and capacity to reach out to elusive reality, to the ahuman, wordless world.
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
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qtd. in
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
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She keeps an Ongoing Anthology, a loose-leaf folder with copies of...
Textual Production Carol Rumens
Since this year, 2007, CR has been picking a Poem of the Week for the Guardian newspaper, which prints the poem along with her commentary and analysis. Rumens like to pay attention to context and...
Travel Carol Ann Duffy
In summer 2016 CAD took part in the Shore to Shore Nationwide Poetry Tour with Gillian Clarke , Imtiaz Dharker , and Jackie Kay . Starting at Falmouth in Cornwall, they took in Carlisle...

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