Description
*Gillian, National Poet of Wales 2008-2016, is one of the best-loved nature poets of our time*She is studied by GCSE and A level students*Gillian is a major performer of her poems around the world and performs in 'Poetry Live'*Featured on the BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs*Her book Ice was shortlisted for the 2013 T. S. Eliot Prize and remains a Carcanet bestseller
About the Author
Born in Cardiff, Wales. Poet, playwright, editor, translator (from Welsh), President of Ty Newydd, the writers' centre in North Wales which she co-founded in 1990. Tutor on M.Phil. course in Creative Writing, the University of Glamorgan, since 1994. Freelance tutor of creative writing, primary schools to adults. Her poetry is studied by GCSE and A Level students throughout Britain. She has travelled in Europe and the United States giving poetry readings and lectures, and her work has been translated into ten languages. She has a daughter and two sons, and now lives with her husband (an architect) on a smallholding in Ceredigion, where they raise a small flock of sheep, and care for the land according to organic and conservation practice.
Reviews
'Gillian Clarke is one of the most widely respected and deeply loved poets in the world' - Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate; 'Gillian Clarke's [poems] ring with lucidity and power... Clarke's work is both personal and archetypal, built out of language as concrete as it is musical.' - Anne Stevenson, Times Literary Supplement
Awards
Short-listed for The Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry 2020.
Book Information
ISBN 9781784102166
Author Gillian Clarke
Format Paperback
Page Count 120
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 11mm