Gillian Clarke

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Gillian Clarke (born 8 June 1937 in Cardiff) is a Welsh poet and playwright, who also edits, broadcasts, lectures, and translates from Welsh into English.

She co-founded a writers' centre in North Wales.

Life

Gillian Clarke was born on 8 June 1937 in Cardiff. She was brought up in Cardiff and Penarth, though for part of the Second World War she was in Pembrokeshire. She lived in Barry for a few years, at a house called Flatholme in The Parade. Although her parents were Welsh speakers, she was brought up to speak only English and learnt to speak Welsh as an adult – partly as a form of rebellion. She graduated in English from Cardiff University.

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Career

Clarke, a student at the University of On a year in London, Clarke spent a year as a reporter with the BBC. She then returned to Cardiff, where she gave birth to her daughter, Catrin, and two sons. She wrote a poem under her name about Catrin. Clarke began teaching English at Reardon-Smith Nautical College and then Newport College of Art.

She and her second husband, who lived in rural Ceredigion, West Wales, spent some years at the University of Glamorgan, teaching creative writing. In 1990, she was a co-founder of T Newydd, a writers' center in North Wales.

GCSE and A Level students from around the United Kingdom are researching her poetry. In the GCSE AQA Anthology Anthology, a considerable number of her poems are included. She has held poetry readings and lectures in Europe and the United States; her book has been translated into ten languages. Peter Jingcheng Xu's translation of her English poems into Chinese was published in the journal Foreign Literature and Art (Issue 6, December 2016).

Clarke has released many collections of poetry for adults and children (see below), as well as dramatic commissions and several research in a number of journals. She is the current president of T Newydd and a former editor of The Anglo-Welsh Review (1975-84). A Poetry Book Society Recommendation has been given to several of her books. During the Machynlleth Festival in 1999, Gillian Clarke was awarded the Glyndr Award for her "Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales." She served on the jury of the 2008 Manchester Poetry Prize. Clarke reads her poetry for teens who are taking their English GCSE exams. She is a member of the GCSE Poetry Live crew, alongside John Agard, Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy, Imtiaz Dharker, Moniza Alvi, Grace Nichols, Daljit Nagra, and Choman Hardy.

Clarke appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in December 2013. She has written over 100 poems in her career.

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