Clive Wilmer
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Clive Wilmer 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
. Wilmer argues that religion is fundamental to what he writes, yet he does not associate himself with a parochial view of the spiritual. 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, a Bye-Fellow of Fitzwilliam College
, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
. He is also an Honorary Fellow and a Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University
.
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. From 1986 to 1990 he was one of the four founding editors of the magazine Numbers
.
He is an enthusiastic advocate for the work of the Victorian critic, thinker and social reformer John Ruskin
. 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.
Harrogate
Harrogate is a spa town in North Yorkshire, England. The town is a tourist destination and its visitor attractions include its spa waters, RHS Harlow Carr gardens, and Betty's Tea Rooms. From the town one can explore the nearby Yorkshire Dales national park. Harrogate originated in the 17th...
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
and attended Emanuel School
Emanuel School
Emanuel School is a co-educational independent school in Battersea, south-west London. The school was founded by Lady Dacre and Elizabeth I in 1594. Today it has some 710 pupils, aged between ten and eighteen.-History:...
and King's College, Cambridge
King's College, Cambridge
King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college's full name is "The King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge", but it is usually referred to simply as "King's" within the University....
. Wilmer argues that religion is fundamental to what he writes, yet he does not associate himself with a parochial view of the spiritual. He is the brother of writer and photographer Val Wilmer
Val Wilmer
Valerie Sybil Wilmer is an internationally noted photographer, jazz historian and writer, also specializing in gospel, blues, and British African-Caribbean music and culture....
.
He is currently resident in Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, a Bye-Fellow of Fitzwilliam College
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Fitzwilliam College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England.The college traces its origins back to 1869 and the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer students from less financially privileged backgrounds a chance to study...
, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
. He is also an Honorary Fellow and a Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University
Anglia Ruskin University
Anglia Ruskin University is one of the largest universities in Eastern England, United Kingdom, with a total student population of around 30,000.-History:...
.
Clive Wilmer was the prime mover of the Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...
centenary exhibition Pound's Artists: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts in London, Paris and Italy
Pound's Artists
Pound's Artists: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts in London, Paris and Italy was an exhibition held in 1985 to mark the centenary of Ezra Pound's birth....
, held at Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard is an art gallery and house in Cambridge, England.- History and overview :Kettle's Yard was originally the Cambridge home of Jim Ede and his wife Helen. Moving to Cambridge in 1956, they converted four small cottages into one idiosyncratic house and a place to display Ede's collection...
and the Tate Gallery
Tate Gallery
The Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art...
in 1985. From 1986 to 1990 he was one of the four founding editors of the magazine Numbers
Numbers (magazine)
Numbers was a literary magazine published twice a year in Cambridge, England, between 1986 and 1990. Six issues of the magazine appeared, of which the last was a double issue to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of the American poet and novelist Janet Lewis...
.
He is an enthusiastic advocate for the work of the Victorian critic, thinker and social reformer John Ruskin
John Ruskin
John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...
. Since 2004, he has been a director of the Guild of St George
Guild of St George
The Guild of St George is charitable trust founded by John Ruskin in England in the 1870s as a vehicle to implement his ideas about how society should be re-organised. Its members, who are called Companions, were originally required to give a tithe of their income to the Guild...
, 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)