Born in Cardiff,
Gillian Clarke, is a poet and translator (from Welsh). She edited the
Anglo-Welsh Review from 1975 to 1984, and ran poetry workshops in primary and secondary schools and for M.Phil. students at the University Of Glamorgan. She is president of Ty Newydd, the writers' centre in North Wales which she co-founded in 1990. She was the National Poet of Wales from 2008 to 2016. Her poetry is studied by GCSE students throughout Britain. She has given poetry readings in Europe and the United States, and her work has been translated into ten languages. She has a daughter and two sons, and lives with her architect husband on an eighteen-acre smallholding in Ceredigion, Wales, where they have planted 4,300 trees and care for the land according to conservation practice.
A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024'The days have no names.
The day they count the dead,
the day they closed the doors,
turned off the lights.We're still here in the silence,
hearing tree-talk,
the wind's secrets,
the company of birds.'
('The Year...
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