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Overview

A collection of essays on nature and the environmental crisis from the former National Poet of Wales.

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'Gillian Clarke is one of the most widely respected and deeply loves poets in the world' —Carol Ann Duffy

Author Biography

Gillian Clarke was born in Cardiff in 1937 and now lives in Ceredigion. A poet, playwright, and tutor on the M.Phil in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan, she is also president of Ty Newydd, the writers' centre in North Wales which she co-founded in 1990. Clarke has published eight Carcanet collections, as well as a Collected Poems and a Selected Poems. She was the inaugural Capital Poet for Cardiff 2005-6.