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clare loves poetry in the woods, by the ash tree. She facilitates creative wellbeing workshops about nature connecting, motivated by the belief that poetry can be a force for personal and social change. She presents radio (The Poet’s Poet is nominated for a Celtic Media Award); she directed a BBC documentary (The Wall and the Mirror) about her village barber, thereafter a group formed to save the local miners’ institute; she’s translated for the National Poet of Wales, was a Hay Festival Writer at Work and is this year’s Royal Society of Literature /Jerwood Poetry Award winner for Cymru. Her Cymraeg pamphlet Nôl Iaith follows new collection Healing the Pack. She was a participant in the Llif European languages retreat as an ambassador for the Welsh language.
clare’s powerful second collection, Healing the Pack (Verve, 2024), has received considerable critical acclaim, including Jonathan Edwards:’ Just as, in one poem, a boy bends a piece of wire ‘to get into the gubbins of something,’ so these poems show us what’s really inside ourselves – all the beauty and all the care for each other that’s sitting there.’