Edward Clarke
English Literature Teacher
Department for Continuing Education
Edward Clarke teaches English literature and creative writing at various colleges and the Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University. His latest book, The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry, published in 2014, makes claims for the efficacy of poetry in our industrialized world, where we are presented with environmental, political and economic challenges. The Later Affluence of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.
He has recently published his cycle of poems in response to his experience of reading the Psalter through once every month according to Cranmer’s divisions in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. A Book of Psalms is now available from Paraclete Press.
Watch the A Book of Psalms Book Launch here.
