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  Jack Clemo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reginald John Clemo (Jack Clemo) (March 11, 1916 - July 25, 1994) was a British poet and writer, strongly associated both with his native Cornwall and his Christian belief.
He was the son of a clay-kiln worker, and his mother, Eveline Clemo (née Polmounter, died 1977), was a dogmatic Nonconformist.
Jack Clemo literary papers at the University of Exeter
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Clemo   (265 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | England | Cornwall | Clay firm destroys poet's house
Jack Clemo is crowned Poet of the Clay at the Cornish Gorsedd
Mr Clemo, who spent all but the last five years of his life at the cottage, started to go blind at the age of five and by the age of 18 he had lost much of his sight and was beginning to go deaf.
Alan Sanders, secretary of the Jack Clemo Memorial Room at the nearby Trevosa Chapel, said: "On a personal and literary level this cottage was highly important.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/4219010.stm   (371 words)

  
 Clemo Collection - University of Exeter Library and Information Service
Reginald John 'Jack' Clemo (1916-1994) poet, was born and lived all his life in Cornwall.
An initial gift of books to the Library was made by Jack Clemo in 1981, and a second in 1983.
They are also valuable as individual objects, as a number of titles are signed and dated by Clemo, or have annotations in his hand, or have cuttings and pictures pasted in to accompany the text.
www.library.ex.ac.uk /special/guides/books/clemo.html   (488 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Cured Arno: Books: Jack Clemo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Clemo was a unique Christian voice who drew many of his metaphors from the clay tips of Cornwall.
Clemo always managed to find positive aspects of the struggles and breakthroughs in such well-known lives, sometimes contrasting them with his own life.
Clemo is unabashedly both a well-informed aesthete and a convinced Christian, which left him ignored by both the "arts" critics and the church leaders, with a few providential exceptions.
www.amazon.com /Cured-Arno-Jack-Clemo/dp/1852243260   (998 words)

  
 The poet and the vision
When Jack Clemo died in 1994 he had become one of his generation’s best landscape and visionary poets.
That he and his mother and her disabled sister lived in near-poverty, that Jack himself had become an unkempt and wild misfit, and that he had written nothing other than his newspaper letters and a couple of sad verses, was not, in his eyes, sufficient reason to doubt God’s declaration.
Jack Clemo’s Selected Poems was published in 1988, as were the subsequent two volumes of verse, Approach to Murano and The Cured Arno, by Bloodaxe Books.
www.sense.org.uk /publications/allpubs/magazine/tsarticles/2003/jackclemo.htm   (1286 words)

  
 Jack
Jack is short for Jackin, an alternate form of Jankin, a English diminutive form of
Jack is sometimes thought of as an English form of Jacques, the French form of
It was so common that it became slang for “man” and is found in many common phrases from “Jack-of-all-trades” to “Jack-o-lantern.” Occasionally, Jack, used as a nickname for Joseph or George, as well as others.
www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/j/jack.html   (130 words)

  
 The Porterfolios
The portraits are of the Cornish poet and writer Jack Clemo, his wife Ruth and mother Evelyn.
Clemo came to public notice when his work was featured in the Penguin Modern Poets series, and the fact that he was blind for most of his life and also contracted profound deafness brought him attention from circles wider than literary ones.
Bottom left, Ruth Clemo writes on Jack's palm with her finger, their normal way of communicating.
www.porterfolio.com /npg-temp.html   (122 words)

  
 clemo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Arno, flowing through Florence and Pisa, 'was "cured" of its erratic and treacherous behaviour, its destructive winter floods and the stench of its dry mud bed in summer.' This, Jack Clemo wrote in the Prefatory Note to this, his final book, 'may represent the cured ego...'
Clemo's technique was never less than adequate to his subject matter, though some of his metrical ticks become a little predictable.
The most surprising, and for me successful, poems in the book are the purely religious 'Growing in Grace', in which Clemo's writing is far more austere and doubtful than usual, and the comic verse of 'T.E.Lawrence', where a wittier and more incisive way with a moral is in evidence.
www.tobylitt.com /clemo.html   (382 words)

  
 Archive Descriptions - University of Exeter Library and Information Service
The initial purchase of eight Clemo notebooks was supported by a grant from the Arts Council in 1980.
The collection is the complete literary archive of Jack Clemo, not including his letters, which, for the time being remain with his widow.
During the lifetime of Clemo's widow, her permission should be sought in writing.
www.library.ex.ac.uk /special/guides/archives/061-70/068_01.html   (460 words)

  
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Chy Jack Clemo en Goonamarrez (Jack Clemo's cottage at Goonamarris) by Jonathan Polkest
Chy Jack Clemo en Goonamarrez (Jack Clemo's cottage at Goonamarris), 2002
The home of Cornish poet / writer Jack Clemo from a disused clay tip at Goonamarris.
www.axisweb.org /seWORK.aspx?WORKID=29608&POP=1   (58 words)

  
 Jack Clemo Bibliography of First Editions at Bookseller World (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jack Clemo Bibliography of First Editions at Bookseller World (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)
Jack Clemo, sometimes referred to as the Cornish Rebel, is an important and increasingly collectable author.
If you are looking to buy or sell rare books then our antiquarian booksellers section may be of some assistance.
www.booksellerworld.com.cob-web.org:8888 /jack-clemo.htm   (72 words)

  
 Bloodaxe Books: Author Page > Jack Clemo
As a young man, Jack Clemo lived in poverty amidst the bleak clay wastelands of Cornwall.
He was also stone deaf, and after writing two visionary novels and his autobiographical Confession of a Rebel, he lost his sight in 1955.
The Cured Arno is his last collection, which he had only just completed at the time of his death in 1994.
www.bloodaxebooks.com /personpage.asp?author=Jack+Clemo   (276 words)

  
 DC Database -- View Entry
Exhibitions featuring Cornwall or Cornish culture have predominated over Jonathan Polkests career although much of the early figurative work looks at museum exhibits with a particular eye, re-presenting and re-representing works in an historical context continues to prevail throughout the artists cannon.
Most recently exhibitions in Sweden and Norway examine the poetry of Cornish Poet Jack Clemo in watercolour work with a stoical survey of Jack Clemos life in the Clay Moors of Cornwall.
There are elements of this same approach with the recent Sliced White Gallery show entitled Hevelepter wherein the Polkest works took on the use of a textile contrast in large, confident somewhat allegorical pieces which referred to artists Chris Burden and to Marina Abromovic and Josef Bueys.
digitalconsciousness.com /fns.php3?pageurl=JonathanPolkest   (277 words)

  
 Mars Hill Review: Issue 13 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jack Clemo and the Poetic Vision of Faith
Blind and deaf from an early age, Jack Clemo labored through the course of his life to redeem, through poetry, the devastated landscape of his Cornwall childhood.
Stephen Woolsey recounts the trials, sorrows, and ultimate blessing as Clemo moves from the isolation of his affliction to the finding of his heart's true desire.
www.marshillreview.com.cob-web.org:8888 /issues/toc13.shtm   (490 words)

  
 Derek Parker Collection
There are significant numbers of letters from Ronald Bottrall, Charles Causley, Jack Clemo, and A. Rowse.
Correspondence from Parker, Charles Causley, Richard Church, and the Prime Minister's Office in an effort to insure a Civil List Pension for poet Jack Clemo represents another project.
There is corresponding mention of these efforts by Jack Clemo in the General Correspondence subseries.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/parker.html   (1330 words)

  
 Clemo (1980) The marriage of a rebel: A mystical-erotic quest
Clemo (1980) The marriage of a rebel: A mystical-erotic quest
The marriage of a rebel: A mystical-erotic quest
To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box.
www.getcited.org /?PUB=102114954&showStat=Ratings   (96 words)

  
 Derek Parker: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
The Projects subseries is arranged alphabetically by project, including BBC Interviews, 1963-1969, Civil List Pension for Jack Clemo, 1960-1961, Contemporary Poets of the English Language, 1969, Edith Sitwell: Selected Letters, 1965-1970, and Liberté, 1967.
The Projects subseries represents several of Parker's other literary interests before and during his tenure as editor of the Poetry Review, including BBC Interviews, Civil List Pension for Jack Clemo, Contemporary Poets of the English Language, Edith Sitwell: Selected Letters, and Liberté.
Another project is Contemporary Poets of the English Language, a biographical dictionary of poets edited by Rosalie Murphy.
www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/uthrc/00105/hrc-00105.html   (1301 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Charles Causley
It is possible that faint traces of a similar style may be discovered in well-known wartime poets, and in poetry magazines such as Poetry and Poverty; but Causley was stronger and more sinuous, and fuller of brilliant natural images, than the others, and alone among them he had staying power; also, his thoughtfulness was stronger.
He paid homage to John Clare, who in those days was not well known, and to the blind Cornish poet of the clay mines, his contemporary Jack Clemo.
His minor poems, which did not cut so deep, always showed the same genuineness, the same tone of voice.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/06/db0601.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2003/11/06/ixopright.html   (1510 words)

  
 Brian Louis Pearce MA FLA FRSA DipRE
‘Clemo the Poet: study and colloquy’, Magwood, 2002.
A study of the poetry of Jack Clemo (1916-1994), the Cornish Methodist writer, blind and deaf before he was 40.
A ‘mini-companion’ to Clemo’s poetry, it includes a dozen poems by BLP
www.sda.co.uk /blp   (932 words)

  
 Fiction, Poetry & Fantasy
The considerable richness in imagery and spiritual vision of the later writing of one of Cornwall's greatest poets Clemo's later writing is evidenced here.
The second in the series begun by the widely praised adventure story The Lyonesse Stone, Seat of Storms tells the story of the Trevelyan family's reluctant involvement in the rapacious activities of the lawyer Ezekiel Grosse and his accomplice Margaret Vingoe.
But 'Madge Figgy' has the supernatural powers of a witch and John and Penny need all the help they can get from legendary beings such as the flsmith Jack of the Hammer and the mermaid 'children of the sea.'
www.connexions.co.uk /tabbhouse/html/fiction.html   (439 words)

  
 About the Author - Norman Stone (television and film)
He began his professional career in television as a producer/director for the Religious Department of the BBC.
Moving from Everyman documentaries and a pioneering Sunday children's show into drama, he produced the highly acclaimed film A Different Drummer about the blind and deaf Cornish poet Jack Clemo (1980).
His career in drama was established with the international success of Shadowlands, on the love and grief of C.S. Lewis, starring Joss Acklund and Claire Bloom, which won two BAFTA awards, an International Emmy and the Prague D'Or for Best Director.
www.wheaton.edu /learnres/ARCSC/collects/sc13/bio.htm   (319 words)

  
 Cornish poetry The Awakening Poems Newly Found by Jack Clemo
Cornish poetry The Awakening Poems Newly Found by Jack Clemo
Cornish novelist and poet Jack Clemo (1916–1994) was one of the most original voices of the twentieth century.
Born in the china clay mining district of Cornwall he lost his hearing in youth and eventually became completely blind.
www.francisboutle.co.uk /booklist/clemo/index.htm   (230 words)

  
 Jack Clemo Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Jack Clemo Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
by Jack Clemo, John Hurst, Alan M. Kent, Andrew C. Symons
Portions of book data provided by Muze Inc. Copyright 1995-2006 Muze Inc. For personal use only.
www.alibris.co.uk /search/books/author/Jack_Clemo   (119 words)

  
 BBC News | HARD CASH | Meet the Team
Since then I have presented a number of mainline BBC programmes, including Breakfast News, Songs of Praise, the early evening news programme Reporting Scotland (which I anchor in Glasgow twice a week), A Family of My Own and, of course, Hard Cash.
I still manage to keep up my writing, producing four books, including biographies of Eric Liddell and Jack Clemo, and most recently, an account of life with children, pets, job and domestic chaos called Family Life.
I love Hard Cash because it gets to grips with the money issues that matter to all of us, issues which I approach not just as a journalist but with the same concern as any harassed mother in charge of a family budget.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/hard_cash/992917.stm   (685 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Jack Clemo, Edward Lucie-Smith, George MacBeth.
Find in a Library: Jack Clemo, Edward Lucie-Smith, George MacBeth.
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www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/8aa02f5d27f79221.html   (45 words)

  
 Talking Sense articles from 2003
Talking Sense in this year looked at outreach, older people, Nick Sturley's new novel, using IT, siblings, the Deafblind Guidance, an update on rubella, finding love and a look back at blind poet Jack Clemo.
Leading question How can deafblind people around the world be empowered to take charge of their own services and programmes?
The poet and the vision When Jack Clemo died in 1994 he had become one of his generation’s best landscape and visionary poets.
www.sense.org.uk /publications/allpubs/magazine/tsarticles/2003   (433 words)

  
 Bloodaxe Books: Title Page > Jack Clemo: Approach to Murano
Bloodaxe Books: Title Page > Jack Clemo: Approach to Murano
A book must be the axe which smashes the frozen sea within us'."
Clemo's later poems are mellower, with Murano, Venice's glass-prod-ucing centre, becoming (he wrote) 'a symbol of the clear-cut, luminous image, contrasting with my bleared and heavy clay idiom'.
www.bloodaxebooks.com /titlepage.asp?isbn=1852241926   (218 words)

  
 Deafblindness Bibliography - Unsorted
Description: Jack Clemo has neen deaf for much of his adult life and blind since 1955.
Description: Jack Clemo, a deaf-blind poet and author.
Description: A autobiography of Jack Clemo, a deaf-blind poet and mystic, now in his early sixties.
www.deafblind.co.uk /biblio_unsorted.html   (11587 words)

  
 Cornwall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cornish World is a colour magazine covering All aspects of Cornish life, it has proved popular with the descendants of Cornish emigrants as well as Cornish residents, it is produced in Cornwall.
Notable Cornish writers include Arthur Quiller-Couch alias "Q", the deaf short story writer, Jack Clemo and D M Thomas acclaimed author and poet.
Cornwall also produced a substantial amount of passion plays during the Middle Ages.
cornwall.iqnaut.net   (2353 words)

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