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 (forthcoming, 2011)
• New & Collected Poems (forthcoming, 2012)

References

1. ^ Stringer, Jenny. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English. p.725.
2. ^ Interview for Poetic Mind
3. ^ "College Fellows". Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. http://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/people/fellows.html. Retrieved 2011-02-07. 
4. ^ "Bye Fellows". Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. http://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/about/people/fellows-information/bye-fellows. Retrieved 2011-02-07. 
5. ^ "Teaching Officers, Affiliated Lecturers and Researchers". University of Cambridge, Faculty of English. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/faculty/index.php. Retrieved 2011-02-08. 
6. ^ "Staff by Subject". Anglia Ruskin University. http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/faculties/alss/deps/english_media/staff/staff_by_subject.html. Retrieved 2011-02-07. 
7. ^ 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
8. ^ Numbers, volumes I to IV, Cambridge 1986 to 1989, ISSN 0950-2858.
9. ^ John Ruskin, Unto this Last and Other Writings, edited with introduction, commentary & notes by Clive Wilmer (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985)

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