team that also includes John Agard, Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy, Imtiaz Dharker, Moniza Alvi, Grace Nichols, Daljit Nagra and Choman Hardi. In December 2013 Clarke was the guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. She has written over 100 poems during her career. Awards In 2008, Gillian Clarke became the third National Poet of Wales. She held the post until 2016, when she was succeeded by Ifor ap Glyn. In 2010 she was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and became the second Welsh person to receive the honour. In 2011 Clarke joined the Gorsedd of Bards. In 2012 she received the Wilfred Owen Association Poetry award. The book Ice was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2012. Books Snow on the Mountain. (Christopher Davies), 1971 The Sundial. (Gomer Press / Gwasg Gomer), 1978 Letter From a Far Country. (Carcanet Press), 1982 Selected Poems. (Carcanet Press), 1985 Letting in the Rumour. (Carcanet Press), 1989 The King of Britain's Daughter. (Carcanet Press), 1993 Collected Poems. (Carcanet Press), 1997 Five Fields. (Carcanet Press), 1998 The Animal Wall. Illustrated, for children. (Gomer Press / Gwasg Gomer) 1999 Nine Green Gardens. (Gomer Press / Gwasg Gomer), 2000 Owain Glyndŵr. (National Library of Wales), 2000 Making the Beds for the Dead (Carcanet Press) April 2004 At the Source (Carcanet Press) May 2008 A Recipe for Water (Carcanet Press) April 2009 Ice (Carcanet Press October 2012) Zoology (Carcanet Press July 2019) Roots Home: Essays and a Journal (Carcanet Press March 2021) The Hours (Broken Sleep Books April 2021) (limited to 100) See also Anglo-Welsh poetry References External links Profile at Poetry Archive with poems written and audio "The poet talks about her prose collection At the Source", BBC Woman's Hour, 13 May 2008 (audio, 10 mins) "Making Beds for the Dead", BBC Woman's Hour, 8 April 2004 (audio, 10 mins) Carcanet Press Review of Gillian Clarke in the Guardian Gillian Clarke poetry workshop in the Guardian Gillian Clarke poetry translated into Chinese in Foreign Literature and Art 1937 births 20th-century Welsh educators 20th-century women educators 20th-century Welsh poets 21st-century Welsh poets 20th-century Welsh women writers 21st-century Welsh women writers 21st-century Welsh writers Anglo-Welsh women poets Alumni of Cardiff University Academics of the University of Glamorgan Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Living people Writers from Cardiff Bards of the Gorsedd Welsh–English translators BBC people Welsh magazine editors Women magazine editors