Edward Clarke teaches English literature and creative writing at various colleges and the Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University. His book, 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.
It’s said his last words were Unto the uttermost part of the earth, My place of birth, And standing there, I gaze upon a cloud And wish to high heaven that he’d come out. I look steadfastly on His witnesses: clear windows fused with light And heads long gone By walls washed white, And…
