Jack Clemo at 100
Roger McGough listens to a series of poems by Cornish poet Jack Clemo, who was born 100 years ago. Rowan Williams and Luke Thompson pick their favourites.
Roger McGough listens to a series of poems by the remarkable Cornish poet Jack Clemo who was born 100 years ago. A devout and singular poet, Clemo grew up in the raw and brutal landscape of the china-clay pits of Cornwall. He was deeply affected by where he was from. Deaf from an early age, and later blind as well, he wrote an extraordinary physical yet religious verse that is like nothing and no one else. The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and Clemo's biographer, Luke Thompson, pick and read their favourite poems and Jim Causley sings some. Producer: Tim Dee.
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This Week's Poems
The Flooded Clay-Pit
Christ in the Clay-Pit
The Excavator
A Calvinist in Love
Quenched
All by Jack Clemo from ‘Jack Clemo Selected Poems’ ed by Luke Thompson, published by Enitharmon.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
By Jack Clemo
From A Different Drummer
Published by Tabb House in 1986.
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Montana Shade
By Jack Clemo
Originally unpublished, recently published in ‘Clay Phoenix: A Biography of Jack Clemo’ by Luke Thompson
Published by Ally
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A Calvinist in Love
Performed by Jim Causley
From the CD ‘The Clay Hymnal: Poems of Jack Clemo’
Westwords Publications
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Interviewed Guest | Rowan Williams |
| Interviewed Guest | Luke Thompson |
| Performer | Jim Causley |
| Producer | Tim Dee |
Broadcasts
- Sun 28 Aug 2016 16:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Sat 3 Sep 2016 23:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4