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Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales

Gillian Clarke on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs this Sunday

Collected Poems

Gillian Clarke is the next castaway this Sunday at 11:15am. She'll be telling Kirsty Young about her favourite pieces of music and what they mean to her. You can tune in at 11:15 via FM radio, digital or via the BBC website; alternatively, you can listen later in the week via BBC iPlayer.

Born in Cardiff, Gillian Clarke is a poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator (from Welsh). Clarke is one of Carcanet's best-loved authors and has published several books, including a Collected Poems, a Selected Poems, the T S Eliot-shortlisted Ice (2012) and a dazzling prose book, At the Source: A Writer's Year. In 2008 Clarke was appointed National Poet of Wales and in 2010 she was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Her poetry is studied by GCSE and A Level students throughout Britain. Click here to find out more about Gillian.

Carcanet's Christmas Promotion
And don't miss out on our Christmas promotion! Until Wednesday 18th of December there's 40% off some of our most popular titles, and free UK delivery - so look no further for Christmas gifts for any bookworm. Discounted books include:

• the Forward Prize- and T S Eliot Prize-shortlisted Parallax by Sinéad Morrissey, the inaugural Belfast Laureate
• the Collected Poems of multi-award-winning Sujata Bhatt
• Hitting the Streets by Oulipo poet Raymond Queneau, and 
• Oracabessa, the outstanding new collection by one of Jamaica's most influential contemporary writers, Lorna Goodison.

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