Gillian Clarke
Gillian Clarke is an accomplished poet, playwright, editor, educator, and translator (from Welsh). Born in Cardiff, Clarke's Welsh heritage plays a central role in her writing, and she is an important figure in contemporary Welsh poetry. Clarke's ancestors were millers and hill farmers known as gwerin (rural folk). The poet's mother—in an effort to make her daughter more "posh" and better prepared for upward social mobility—forbade Clarke from learning and speaking Welsh at home. Outside the...
