Collected Poems

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. Her poetry is studied by GCSE and A Level students throughout Britain. She has given poetry readings and lectures in Europe and the United States, and her work has been translated into ten languages. She has a daughter and two sons, and now lives with her architect husband on a smallholding in Ceredigion, Wales, where they raise a small flock of sheep, and care for the land according to organic and conservation practice.Gillian Clarke was National Poet of Wales 2008 - 2015.Carcanet has published her 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) and Making the Beds for the Dead (2004).Listen to Gillian in conversation with Nadia Kingsley on the Fair Acre Press DIVERSIFLY podcastabout her writing process, what poetry is, and the Welsh language.

• from The SundialThe Sundial Journey Snow on the MountainBlaen CwrtBaby-Sitting CalfNightrideCatrin Still Life Storwm Awst Death of a Young Woman Swinging Lunchtime Lecture Dyddgu Replies to Dafydd At Ystrad Fflûr Railway Tracks Foghorns Curlew Burning Nettles Last Rites Harvest at Mynachlog ClywedogChoughs St Thomas’s Day from Letter from a Far CountryWhite RosesReturn to Login Miracle on St David’s Day East Moors Scything Jac Codi Baw Ram Buzzard Friesian Bull Sunday Taid’s Funeral Letter from a Far Country Kingfishers at CondatSeamstress at St LéonLes Grottes Heron at Port Talbot Suicide on Pentwyn BridgePlums Death of a Cat Cardiff ElmsSheila na Gig at KilpeckSiege Lly^r Blodeuwedd Shadows in Llanbadarn The Water-Divinerfrom Selected PoemsSyphoning the Spring A Dream of Horses OctoberClimbing Cader IdrisCastell y BereToday Taid’s Grave Tadzekistan Shearingfrom Letting in the RumourAt One Thousand Feet Neighbours Windmill Listening for TrainsStormSeal Ichthyosaur Cold Knap LakeApplesOrangesFires on Lly^nTalking of Burnings in Walter Savage Landor’s SmithyBorder Post Script MargedOverheard in County SligoShawl My Box Falling RoadblockBinaryThe Hare Hare in JulyTrophy The Rothko RoomRed Poppy FebruaryGannet Night FlyingIn JanuaryTory Party Conference, Bournemouth, 1986 Times like These Slate Mine Roofing Hearthstone Pipistrelle Fulmarus Glacialis Racing PigeonMagpie in Snow Tawny OwlPeregrine Falcon Clocks Cofiantfrom The King of Britain’s DaughterBlood Musician The ListenersAnorexicThe Vet Baltic Hölderlin in Tubingen The PoetWild Sound Swimming with SealsLurcher LamentNo Hands Olwen Takes Her First Steps on the Word Processor in Time of WarEclipse of the MoonAdvent The LighthouseOn Air Wind Gauge Grave GodThe Angelus Family HouseStealing Peas Sunday Breakers Yard The LoftHay Beudy Walking on Water The West Window of York Minster St Winefride’s Well Coming Home The Wind-Chimes The King of Britain’s DaughterIndex of titles Index of first lines