clare e. potter

clare loves poetry in the woods by the ash tree. As a poetry therapy practice trainee she facilitates creative wellbeing workshops, motivated by the belief that poetry can be a force for personal and social change. She presents radio, with The Poet’s Poet nominated for a Celtic Media Award, and has directed a BBC documentary, The Wall and the Mirror, about her village barber, thereafter a group formed to save the miners’ institute. clare mentors other artists, has given a TedX talk, and won the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry. She has translated for the National Poet of Wales, was a Hay Festival Writer at Work and is this year’s Royal Society of Literature/Jerwood Poetry Award winner for Cymru. Her Cymraeg pamphlet Nôl Iaith follows her new collection Healing the Pack. She was an ambassador for the Welsh language at Llif a European languages retreat with focus on ecology, climate emergency and culture.