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POTTER, CLARE

Tel: 01443 217249
Email: clare_potter_5@hotmail.com

Clare Potter was brought up in Blackwood, South Wales, and became a published poet after moving to the USA. She gained an MA in Afro–Caribbean literature in Mississippi. She then moved to New Orleans, where she was a consultant for the New Orleans Writing Project. On returning to Wales after seven years, Clare won the 2004 John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry. Clare is currently working towards a PhD in Creative Writing and tutors at the Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning. She has completed a Touchpaper training project, which aims to teach writers to use creative writing to work with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Clare was awarded the Cardiff 2005 Future Focus bursary and spent it returning to New Orleans to write poems for Spilling Histories (Cinnamon, 2006), which is her first collection and inspired by the aftermath of the New Orleans disaster. Spilling Histories (Cinnamon, 2006) was launched in Cardiff in November, 2006. Clare is a Member of Academi.

Reviews:

"…It was her ability to make us want to read her poetry as a distinct entity to her delivery that clinched it…"
Hannah Jones, John Tripp Judge, Western Mail

"…Clare Potter is a rare and exquisite find...her images are fresh and haunting..."
Jan Villarubia, Poet and Playwright, New Orleans


Selected Publications:
Spilling Histories (Cinnamon, 2006)



Spilling Histories (Cinnamon, 2006)

"...These poems are hard-edged with realism but they are bound together with an imagery that is evocative and, on the surface at least, deceptively simple. The writer’s voice… leaves you gasping at the quality of the word-pictures... Above all, they are the poems of someone who cares..." - Phil Carradice

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Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Poetry and poetry appreciation
2. Short stories
3. Performance pieces. 
Topics can include American, African and Caribbean literature and how to get published.

AGE RANGE: 6 to adult. Will cater for new and experienced writers.