Tuesday, January 20, 2009

News at Eleven: The poet originally from Cardiff

but now living in Ceredigion explained: "A few days after his election I was performing in front of 2,000 schoolchildren in Birmingham.

"Academi's message that they wanted me to write a poem for Obama came through and I was introduced by the chief examiner as the National Poet of Wales who will write a poem for Obama.

[by Gillian Clarke]

New Year, 2009

Venus in the arc of the young moon

from BBC News: Poem sent for Obama inauguration

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