Gillian Clarke

Standard Name: Clarke, Gillian
Birth Name: Gillian Williams
Married Name: Gillian Clarke
GC , a Welsh poet who began writing in the later twentieth century, has been called by the Literary Reviewone of the leading poets and poetry teachers of her generation.
Clarke, Gillian, and Sheenagh Pugh. “Poems”. The Literary Review: Re-Imagining Wales, edited by Tony Curtis and Christopher Meredith, Vol.
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, No. 2, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 2001.
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She has also written plays (sometimes for radio), short stories, a libretto, non-fiction, reviews, translation, and poems for children, and has editedanthologies and a poetry journal.
Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer, June 1997.
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Somewhat blurry colour photo of Gillian Clarke standing at a lectern with a microphone. She is wearing something dark, with glasses, and has loose shoulder-length blonde hair.

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Textual Production Carol Ann Duffy
CAD continued to use her position for the voicing of strong political opinions. On 25 July 2009 The Guardian's Review section opened with three pages of poems on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Textual Production Carol Ann Duffy
Contributors included Gillian Clarke (with In a Cardiff Arcade, 1952), Jackie Kay (with Silver Moon, for London's feminist bookshop, 1982-2001), and Liz Lochhead (for the more general Essentials).
Travel Carol Ann Duffy
In summer 2016 CAD took part in the Shore to Shore Nationwide Poetry Tour with Gillian Clarke , Imtiaz Dharker , and Jackie Kay . Starting at Falmouth in Cornwall, they took in Carlisle...

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