Edward Clarke
Edward Clarke lives in Oxford with his wife and children. His last collection of poems, Cherubims, was published by Kelsay Books at the end of 2022. Previous collections of his poetry include The Voice inside Our Home (SLG Press, 2022) and A Book of Psalms (Paraclete Press, 2020). His documentary, ‘Clarke’s Psalter,’ was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018. He is also the author of three books of criticism, The Later Affluence of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry (Iff Books, 2014), and The Secret Mind of Art (Angelico Press, 2023). https://edwardjamesclarke.wordpress.com/
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“My poetry is an attempt to put a vertical beam in the horizontality of modern culture.”
(10 minutes) Edward Clarke is a poet who thinks he can add to the psalms and connect with the cherubim. And he’s delightfully sane! Adamah’s Editorial Director Joseph Evans interviewed him.
