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Gillian Clarke (b. June 8, 1937) is a prominent Anglo-Welsh poet, whose work is much studied in UK schools.

She was born in Cardiff. She was brought up in Cardiff and Penarth, though for part of the war she was in Pembrokeshire. After graduating in English from University of Wales, Cardiff, she spent a year working for the BBC in London. Subsequently, she returned to Cardiff where she married and had three children. She worked as an English teacher, first in the Reardon-Smith Nautical College, and later in Newport College of Art. In the mid 1980s she moved to rural Ceredigion, west Wales with her second husband.

She spent some years as creative writing tutor at the University of Glamorgan, and is president of Ty Newydd.

Works

• The King of Britain's Daughter (1993)
• The Whispering Room (1996)
• Five Fields (1998)
• Making the Beds for the Dead (2004)

External links

• Gillian Clarke at www.contemporarywriters.com

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