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Gillian Clarke  

Gillian Clarke

Gillian Clarke is National Poet for Wales since 2008 Born in Cardiff, she read English at Cardiff University. She is a poet, playwright, translator (from Welsh), President of Ty Newydd, the writer’s centre in North Wales which she co-founded in 1990, tutor on the M.Phil. course in Writing, the University of Glamorgan, since 1994. Students throughout Britain study her poetry for GCSE and A Level. She lives with her husband (an architect) in Ceredigion, Recent books include At the Source, a collection of prose, 2008, and a new collection of poems, A Recipe for Water, April 2009,Carcanet Press. We are excited to be able to offer tea towels featuring her poem ‘Wild Plums’ in both the English and Welsh language.



Authors’ Biographies

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KATE CHOPIN
(1850-1904)

O HENRY
(1862-1910)

D.H. LAWRENCE
(1885-1930)

KATHERINE MANSFIELD
(1888-1923)

SAKI
(1870-1916)

OSCAR WILDE
(1854-1900)

CAROL ANN DUFFY

KENNETH GRAHAME
(1859-1932)

FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
(1849-1924)

LEWIS CARROLL
(1832-1898)

MARK TWAIN
(1835-1910)

E. NESBIT
(1858-1924)

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
(1850-1894)

GILLIAN CLARKE

WENDY COPE