In 2008, Gillian Clarke became the third National Poet of Wales.[6] She held the post until 2016, when she was succeeded by Ifor ap Glyn.[7] In 2010 she was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and became the second Welsh person to receive the honour.[8]
In 2011 Clarke joined the Gorsedd of Bards.[9] In 2012 she received the Wilfred Owen Association Poetry award.[10]
The book Ice was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2012.[11]
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Clarke presents her retreat as remote, natural, and without conveniences. It was a place of hard work, it was isolated, and its surrounding were often bleak, and yet, through her description, we know that it was the place she called home.
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