About Gillian Clarke
Gillian Clarke is a Welsh poet born in Cardiff in 1937. She is also playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator from Welsh. The publication of her first collection of poetry The Sundial in 1978 announced her arrival as a significant new voice in the world of Welsh letters. She was the editor of The Anglo-Welsh Review from 1974 to 1984. She was the National Poet of Wales from 2008 to 2016, was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2010 and the Wilfred Owen Award in 2012. She has published ten collections of poetry for adults, written radio and theatre plays and translated poetry and prose from Welsh. Her work is widely anthologised, and her poetry forms part of the school syllabus in Britain. Her version of the book-long 7th century Welsh poem, Y Gododdin, was published by Faber in 2021. A new book of essays and a journal, Roots Home, has been published by Carcarnet in 2021 and she currently has a work-in-progress, a collection of poems, with the working title The Silence.Browse all poems and texts published on Gillian Clarke
