Her searingly honest poem about the relationship between a mother
and her teenage daughter has been studied by thousands of teenagers
across the country.
She has been described as the most intensely sensuous of writers
and one reviewer has called her language 'as concrete as it is
musical'.
Poet Gillian Clarke joins us* to explore why her work seems to
resonate with readers of all ages - and explains how her vantage
point in the Welsh countryside has informed her new collection
Making the Beds for the Dead.
* Taken from her BBC Woman's Hour
Interview 8th April, 2004.
Making Beds for the Dead by Gillian Clarke,
is published by
Carcanet Press, ISBN 1 85754 737 3 Weblink for
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