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(Published in Menna Elfyn [ed.], Trying the Line: A Volume of Tribute to Gillian Clarke [Llandysul: Gomer, 1997].)
Notes
1I am very grateful to Dr Diane Green for providing me with a bibliography of Gillian Clarke’s writings and xeroxes of several of the more inaccessible items.
2‘The King of Britain’s Daughter’, in Tony Curtis (ed.), How Poets Work (Bridgend: Seren, 1996), pp. 122–6. Hereafter HPW.
3Letter from a Far Country (Manchester: Carcanet, 1982), p. 27. Hereafter LFC.
4Eavan Boland, Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time (Manchester: Carcanet, 1995). Quotations from the London: Vintage edition, p. 232. Hereafter OL.
5‘Beginning with Bendigeidfran’, in Jane Aaron, Teresa Rees, Sandra Betts and Moira Vincentelli (eds), Our Sisters’ Land (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1994), pp. 287–93. Hereafter OSL.
6Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, ed. Morag Shiach (Oxford: Oxford University Press, World’s Classics, 1992), p. 148.
7‘Interview with Gillian Clarke’, in David T. Lloyd (ed.), The Urgency of Identity: Contemporary English-language Poetry from Wales (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1994), p. 29. Hereafter UI.
8Gillian Clarke’s poetry first appeared in Poetry Wales, 6/1 (1970), 18–20.
9‘Lunchtime Lecture’, The Sundial (Llandysul: Gomer, 1978), p. 13. Hereafter S.
10‘Morning Song’, Ariel (London: Faber, 1965).
11‘Hunter-gatherer or Madonna mistress?’, Bloodaxe Catalogue, 1986–7, p. 20. Hereafter H-g.
12Editorial, The Anglo-Welsh Review (1979).
13Introduction to her own work, in Meic Stephens (ed.), The Bright Field: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from Wales (Manchester: Carcanet, 1991), p. 54. Hereafter BF.
14‘Snow on the Mountain’, in Snow on the Mountain (Swansea and Llandybïe: Christopher Davies, 1971), Triskel Poets Series, Number Five, p. 18. Hereafter SM.
15Interview with Gillian Clarke, in Susan Butler (ed.), Common Ground: Poets in a Welsh Landscape (Bridgend: Poetry Wales Press, 1995), p. 198. Hereafter CG.
16The two essays are ‘Beginning with Bendigeidfran’ and ‘The King of Britain’s Daughter’ (see above).
17‘In Literary Residence’, Llais Llyfrau/Book News from Wales (1984).
18‘Gillian Clarke: The Poet’s Introduction’, in Judith Kinsman (ed.), Six Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 1.
19Under Milk Wood, ed. Daniel Jones (London: Dent, Everyman edition, 1992), p. 1. I have, of course, omitted the opening line: ‘To begin at the beginning.’
20‘D. H. Lawrence’, in W. H. Auden, Selected Essays (London: Faber, 1964), p. 31. Hereafter SE.
21‘Letting in the Rumour: a letter from a far country, by Gillian Clarke’, Poetry Book Society Bulletin, 141 (1989), 14.
22Review of Jan Morris, Conundrum, in The Anglo-Welsh Review, 53 (1974), 259.
23The phrases are taken from ‘Writer’s Diary’, Llais Llyfrau/Book News from Wales (Spring 1993), 4.