The Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarke's first
full collection of poems, The Sundial, in 1978. In the twenty years
since then the poet has become one of the best-loved and most widely
read writers of Wales, well-known for her readings, for her radio work
and her workshops. Gillian Clarke is a severe critic of her own
poems--Collected Poems includes all that she wishes to preserve of her
work to date.