Gillian Clarke, born 8 June 1937 is an Anglo-Welsh poet. 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. 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, after which time she spent some years as creative writing tutor at the University of Glamorgan.

She has published numerous collections of poetry for adults and children (see below, as well as dramatic commissions and numerous articles in a wide range of publications. She is a former editor of "Anglo-Welsh Review" (1975-84) and current president of Ty Newydd. Several of her books have received the Poetry Book Society Recommendation. In 1999 Gillian Clarke received the Glyndwr Award for an "Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales" during the Machynlleth Festival. A considerable amount of her poems are used in the GCSE AQA Anthology.

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