List Of Writers

CLARKE, GILLIAN

Blaen Cwrt, Talgarreg, Llandysul, Ceredigion SA44 4EU
Tel: (01545) 590311

Poet, writer, playwright, editor, translator (from Welsh), occasional broadcaster. President of Tŷ Newydd writers’ centre in Gwynedd, which she co–founded in 1990. Tutor on M.Phil studies course in Creative Writing, University of Glamorgan. Freelance tutor of creative writing. She is an Honorary fellow of Aberystwyth, Cardiff and Swansea Colleges of the University of Wales. Her most recent projects include Bioverse, poems for the Welsh National Botanical Gardens 1999–2000; The Blue Man (play for BBC Radio 4); and One Bright Morning, a translation of the Welsh novel Tegwch y Bore by Kate Roberts (forthcoming).

Gillian Clarke was appointed Wales’ first Capital Poet in 2005 by Cardiff Council and the Academi. She was given the job of using poetry to comment on, celebrate and commemorate Cardiff’s 2005 celebrations. Gillian was announced as Wales’ new National Poet in March 2008, succeeding Professor Gwyn Thomas. Please click here for more information.

Her prose essays, articles and reviews are widely published. Translations of her work by T Llew Jones, Menna Elfyn and Kate Roberts have been published. Gillian’s commisions include radio and television material, as well as plays for Theatr Powys and Sherman Youth Theatre and for broadcast by the BBC. She has been involved in various editing projects from the Anglo Welsh Review (1976-1984) through to anthologies of children’s poetry by children. Gillian is a member of the Academi Members’ Committee.

You can hear Gillian read her poetry on her latest CD Twenty Poems which is available to buy from her website.  For further details click here

Selected Publications:
Snow on the Mountain (Christopher Davies, 1971)
The Sundial (Gomer, 1978)
Letter From a Far Country (Carcanet, 1982; 2006)
The King of Britain’s Daughter (Carcanet Press, 1993)
Collected Poems (Carcanet, 1997)
Five Fields (Carcanet, 1998)
Nine Green Gardens: poems for Aberglasne (Gomer, 1999)
The Animal Wall and other poems (for children) (Pont Books, 1999)
Making Beds for the Dead (Carcanet, 2004)
At the Source (Carcanet, 2008)



Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Read and discuss own poetry informally (older pupils and adults)
2. Poetry and creative writing workshops (all ages)

AVAILABILITY: Needs to be booked far ahead.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Full teacher participation in school visits. At least two hours for a workshop.