Click here to access the poetry recordings of Gillian Clarke as well as a brief biography of this author.

Gillian Clarke (b. 1937) is one of the central figures in contemporary Welsh poetry. Born in Cardiff and currently running an organic small-holding in Ceredigion, the Welsh landscape is a shaping force in her work, together with recurrent themes of war, womanhood and the passage of time. From this page, you can hear the voice of Gillian Clarke reading four of her poems, "Cold Knap Lake," "Legend," "Amber," and "The Piano."

Poetry Archive exists to help make poetry accessible, relevant and enjoyable to a wide audience. It came into being as a result of a meeting, in a recording studio, between Andrew Motion, soon after he became U.K. Poet Laureate in 1999, and the recording producer, Richard Carrington. They agreed about how enjoyable and illuminating it is to hear poets reading their work and about how regrettable it was that, even in the recent past, many important poets had not been properly recorded.

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