About Gillian Clarke
The Silence
is the Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Spring 2024
most recently, Roots Home was Short-listed, 2022, The Wales Book of the Year
Winner, 2012 Wilfred Owen Award
Winner, 2011 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
Born in Cardiff, Gillian Clarke is a poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator (from Welsh). She is president of Ty Newydd, the writers' centre in North Wales which she co-founded in 1990. Since 1994 she has been a tutor in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan. Her poetry is studied by GCSE and A Level students throughout Britain. She has given poetry readings and lectures in Europe and the United States, and her work has been translated into ten languages. She has a daughter and two sons, and now lives with her architect husband on a smallholding in Ceredigion, Wales, where they raise a small flock of sheep, and care for the land according to organic and conservation practice.
Gillian Clarke was National Poet of Wales 2008 - 2015.
Carcanet has published her work since 1985 and include - The Silence, Roots Home, Zoology, Ice, A Recipe for Water, At the Source, Letter from a Far Country, Making the Beds for the Dead, Five Fields, Collected Poems, Selected Poems, Letter from a Far Country, The King of Britain's Daughter, Letting In the Rumour.