Clive Wilmer
Clive Wilmer (born 10 February 1945) is a British poet, who has published eight volumes of poetry. Wilmer was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire and attended Emanuel School and King's College, Cambridge.[1] Wilmer argues that religion is fundamental to what he writes, yet he does not associate himself with a parochial view of the spiritual.[2] He is the brother of writer and photographer Val Wilmer.
He is currently resident in Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College,[3] a Bye-Fellow of Fitzwilliam College,[4] and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.[5] He is also an Honorary Fellow and a Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University.[6]
Clive Wilmer was the prime mover of the Ezra Pound centenary exhibition Pound's Artists: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts in London, Paris and Italy, held at Kettle's Yard and the Tate Gallery in 1985.[7] From 1986 to 1990 he was one of the four founding editors of the magazine Numbers.[8]
He is an enthusiastic advocate for the work of the Victorian critic, thinker and social reformer John Ruskin .[9] Since 2004, he has been a director of the Guild of St George, the charity founded by Ruskin, and became Master of the Guild in 2009.
Works
- The Dwelling-Place (1977)
- (with George Gömöri) Miklós Radnóti, Forced March: Selected Poems (1979)
- Devotions (1982)
- (as editor) 'Thom Gunn, The Occasions of Poetry: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography (1982)
- (as editor) 'John Ruskin, Unto this Last, and Other Writings (1985)
- (as editor) 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Selected Poems and Translations (1991)
- (with George Gömöri) György Petri, Night Song of the Personal Shadow: Selected Poems' (1991)
- Of Earthly Paradise (1992)
- (as editor) William Morris, News from Nowhere and Other Writings (1993)
- Poets Talking: The ‘Poet of the Month’ Interviews from BBC Radio 3 (1994)
- Selected Poems (1995)
- (as editor with Charles Moseley) Cambridge Observed: An Anthology (1998)
- (as editor) Donald Davie, With the Grain: Essays on Thomas Hardy and Modern British Poetry (1998)
- (with George Gömöri) György Petri, Eternal Monday: New and Selected Poems (1999)
- The Falls (2000)
- (as editor) Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Selected Poems and Translations (2002)
- (with George Gömöri) Miklós Radnóti, Forced March: Selected Poems, revised & extended edition, (2003)
- (as editor) Donald Davie, Modernist Essays: Yeats, Pound, Eliot (2004)
- Stigmata (2005)
- The Mystery of Things (2006)
- (with George Gömöri) János Pilinszky, Passio: Fourteen Poems (2011)
- New & Collected Poems (2012)
References
- ↑ Stringer, Jenny. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English. p.725.
- ↑ Interview for Poetic Mind
- ↑ "College Fellows". Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
- ↑ "Bye Fellows". Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
- ↑ "Teaching Officers, Affiliated Lecturers and Researchers". University of Cambridge, Faculty of English. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
- ↑ "Staff by Subject". Anglia Ruskin University. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
- ↑ Donald Davie, 'Ezra Pound and the perfect lady', London Review of Books, Vol. 7 No. 16 · 19 September 1985 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v07/n16/donald-davie/pound-and-the-perfect-lady
- ↑ Numbers, volumes I to IV, Cambridge 1986 to 1989, ISSN 0950-2858.
- ↑ John Ruskin, Unto this Last and Other Writings, edited with introduction, commentary & notes by Clive Wilmer (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985)
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