Clemo, Jack

Clemo, Jack

▪ British poet
original name  Reginald John Clemo  
born March 11, 1916, near St. Austell, Cornwall, Eng.
died July 25, 1994, Weymouth, Dorset

      English poet and author whose physical sufferings—he became deaf about 1936 and blind in 1955—influenced his work.

      Clemo's formal education ended when he was 13. The son of a Cornish clay-kiln worker (d. 1917), he was raised by his mother, a dogmatic Nonconformist. His early poems reflect the stark landscape of the clay-pits in their austere intensity. Important in his writings are the themes of Christianity and conversion, erotic mysticism and marriage, and the role of suffering in attaining happiness. He married Ruth Peaty in 1968, and she inspired his later poetry, which shows a softened acceptance of sex and love.

      Clemo's prose works include Wilding Graft (1948), The Shadowed Bed (1986), and the autobiographical Confession of a Rebel (1949) and The Marriage of a Rebel (1980). His major poetic collections are The Map of Clay (1961), Cactus on Carmel (1967), The Echoing Tip (1971), Broad Autumn (1975), A Different Drummer (1986), Selected Poems (1988), Banner Poems (1989), and Approach to Murano (1993).

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