Born in Cardiff, Gillian Clarke is a poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator (from Welsh). She edited the Anglo-Welsh Review from 1975 to 1984, and has taught creative writing in primary and secondary schools and at university level. 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. She was National Poet of Wales 2008- 2015. She has published the following with Carcanet Press: Selected Poems (1985), Letting in the Rumour (1989, Poetry Book Society Recommendation), The King of Britain’s Daughter (1993), Collected Poems (1997), Five Fields (1998), Making the Beds for the Dead (2004) and Ice (2012), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Recent collections include Zoology (2017) and The Silence (2024), also Carcanet Press. She has twice chaired the Eliot Prize panel of judges.
This biography of Gillian Clarke is taken from the Carcanet Press website.
