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.

• Polar Ice Advent Concert Winter RiverIce Music Home for Christmas Snow White Nights In the Bleak Midwinter Hunting the Wren Carol of the Birds Freeze 1947 Freeze 2010 New Year The Dead after the Thaw Swans Who Killed the Swan? The Newport Ship Eiswein Thaw Fluent Nant Mill Farmhouse Taid In Wern Graveyard Lambs The Letter Grebes Burnet Moths Er Gwell, Er Gwaeth Honesty Bluebells Between the Pages Glâs Small Blue Butterfly Mango Senedd The Tree Blue Sky Thinking A Wind from Africa Running Away to the Sea – 1955 Pheidippedes’ Daughter Storm-Snake Oradour, 10 June 1944 A Glory in Llanberis Pass Shearwaters on Enlli White Cattle of Dinefwr Six Bells Sarah at Plâs Newydd, Llangollen, 5 July 1788 Pebble Taliesin August Hare Gleision Osprey Wild Plums Harvest Moon Blue Hydrangeas In the Reading Room The Plumber Listen The March Archive The Book of AneirinLament for Haiti The Fish Pass Ode to Winter The Year’s Midnight

'In Ice Gillian Clarke explores memory and identity through a series of winter landscapes.'Adam Newey, The Guardian, 1st December 2012

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.

• Polar Ice Advent Concert Winter RiverIce Music Home for Christmas Snow White Nights In the Bleak Midwinter Hunting the Wren Carol of the Birds Freeze 1947 Freeze 2010 New Year The Dead after the Thaw Swans Who Killed the Swan? The Newport Ship Eiswein Thaw Fluent Nant Mill Farmhouse Taid In Wern Graveyard Lambs The Letter Grebes Burnet Moths Er Gwell, Er Gwaeth Honesty Bluebells Between the Pages Glâs Small Blue Butterfly Mango Senedd The Tree Blue Sky Thinking A Wind from Africa Running Away to the Sea – 1955 Pheidippedes’ Daughter Storm-Snake Oradour, 10 June 1944 A Glory in Llanberis Pass Shearwaters on Enlli White Cattle of Dinefwr Six Bells Sarah at Plâs Newydd, Llangollen, 5 July 1788 Pebble Taliesin August Hare Gleision Osprey Wild Plums Harvest Moon Blue Hydrangeas In the Reading Room The Plumber Listen The March Archive The Book of AneirinLament for Haiti The Fish Pass Ode to Winter The Year’s Midnight

'In Ice Gillian Clarke explores memory and identity through a series of winter landscapes.'Adam Newey, The Guardian, 1st December 2012

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.

• Polar Ice Advent Concert Winter RiverIce Music Home for Christmas Snow White Nights In the Bleak Midwinter Hunting the Wren Carol of the Birds Freeze 1947 Freeze 2010 New Year The Dead after the Thaw Swans Who Killed the Swan? The Newport Ship Eiswein Thaw Fluent Nant Mill Farmhouse Taid In Wern Graveyard Lambs The Letter Grebes Burnet Moths Er Gwell, Er Gwaeth Honesty Bluebells Between the Pages Glâs Small Blue Butterfly Mango Senedd The Tree Blue Sky Thinking A Wind from Africa Running Away to the Sea – 1955 Pheidippedes’ Daughter Storm-Snake Oradour, 10 June 1944 A Glory in Llanberis Pass Shearwaters on Enlli White Cattle of Dinefwr Six Bells Sarah at Plâs Newydd, Llangollen, 5 July 1788 Pebble Taliesin August Hare Gleision Osprey Wild Plums Harvest Moon Blue Hydrangeas In the Reading Room The Plumber Listen The March Archive The Book of AneirinLament for Haiti The Fish Pass Ode to Winter The Year’s Midnight

'In Ice Gillian Clarke explores memory and identity through a series of winter landscapes.'Adam Newey, The Guardian, 1st December 2012