John Clarke

  Although born and bred in Cumbria, John Clarke studied for his degree in Yorkshire and
  has been resident in Wakefield since 1990.
  He has worked in three Yorkshire secondary schools and pines only intermittently for his
  homeland.
  Currock Press was set up in 2002 to promote John’s first collection, After the Storm and  
  is now taking on a wider role in promoting poetry in the region generally, particularly as the parent body to the Red Shed Readings.
 

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John Clarke – Writing C.V.

Poetry Publications

After the Storm 09543373 0 1 published by Currock Press, September, 2002.

Poems published in: Raven, Poetry Monthly, Cutting Teeth, Smiths Knoll, Retort.

Also featured in Full Gallop, the Black Horse Poet’s anthology.

My Feet Are Killing Me included in One River, Many Creeks, Macmillan 2003

Advice to Anyone Sitting in a Hot Car…, Scholastic 2004

Earth Songs included in Say It Out Loud, Macmillan, 2007

Four poems included in Read Me at School, Macmillan 2009

 

Winner of the Jane Harrison award. January 2003 and 2009 (Joint winner with Andy Owen)

 

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Published fiction (short stories)

Pathway to Glory

Party Night

Carrying On Broadcast on BBC Radio Sheffield and Leeds.

Four Score Draws. Nottinghamshire Evening Post Corgi Books Award winner

Padding Up

Goodwill to All Men. Mansfield Chronicle Advertiser.

I Was Ready to Fall in Love. Included in Arctic Night, the Featherstone Short Story

Competition Winner’s Anthology.

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Articles

 

Poets in Schools: A Teacher’s Report. B.P. Teacher’s Poetry Resource File.

 

The Poetry Society.

Rules Kill the Write Stuff. The Times Educational Supplement. 22.12.00

 

Thank God it’s Friday. T.E.S. 20.04.00

How I Learned to Love the Literacy Strategy. T.E.S. 20.07.01.

Where Angels Fear to Tread. T.E.S. 1.03.02

Persuasive Mix of Morals and Marigolds. T.E.S. 04.06.04

“A Tale of Two Stories.” TES 10.12.2004

“It’s Not the Clothes but the Way You Wear Them.” TES 27.5.05.

“Just Go Where Your Consciences Take You.” TES 6.1.06.

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John Clarke, poet, teacher and director of Currock Press in serious mode. Would you buy a used poem from this man? Would you, in fact, allow him into your country? (N.B. The moustache is still deeply mourned.)