Jack Clemo (1916–1994)
Autor(a) de Penguin Modern Poets 6: Jack Clemo, Edward Lucie-Smith, George MacBeth
About the Author
Image credit: BBC love letters
Obras por Jack Clemo
Cactus on Carmel 4 exemplares
Clay cuts 1 exemplar
The clay verge : poems 1 exemplar
The Clay Dump 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Clemo, Reginald John
- Data de nascimento
- 1916-03-11
- Data de falecimento
- 1994-07-25
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- St Austell, Cornwall, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Weymouth, Dorset, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- St Austell, Cornwall, England (birth)
Weymouth, Dorset, England (death) - Ocupações
- poet
novelist - Relações
- Causley, Charles (friend)
Membros
Críticas
Listas
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 20
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 144
- Popularidade
- #143,281
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 22
This is from the Wikipedia entry on Clemo:
Reginald John Clemo (Jack Clemo) (March 11, 1916 - July 25, 1994) was a British poet and writer, strongly associated both with his native Cornwall and his Christian belief. His work is visionary and inspired by the Cornish landscape. He was the son of a clay-kiln worker, and his mother, Eveline Clemo (née Polmounter, died 1977), was a dogmatic Nonconformist.
He was born near St Austell, and had no formal schooling after age 13. He became deaf around age 20, and blind in 1955 (19 years later). His early work was published in the local press; he first received recognition in connection with the Festival of Britain.
The massive china clay mines and works around which he grew up feature strongly in his work.
His former home was demolished by the Goonvean china clay company on September 6, 2005 to make way for laboratories. This has provoked much anger locally and from fans of the poet.
There is a small museum of his life and works at Trethosa chapel which is run by volunteers.
His literary papers, including manuscripts of prose and poetry works, are held by the University of Exeter.
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