MS 452

Reference code

MS 452

Title

Jeremy Clarke archive

Level

Sub-fonds

Administrative / Biographical history

Jeremy Clarke is a British-born poet. Born in Bedfordshire in 1959, he has lived and worked in Canada, America, Europe, the Arctic and in the Middle East. He currently lives in London. He was Poet in Residence at Eton College from 2010 to 2020, giving workshops to the boys, performing readings from his work and occasionally judging writing prizes.

Date

2005-2024

Extent & medium

7 boxes, 2 framed prints, 1 large volume, 3 loose sheets

Content description

The Jeremy Clarke archive comprises original drafts, printed editions, audio CDs, artwork and other papers relating to his single poems and collections of poetry.

Arrangement

The order in which the papers have been received and accrued before cataloguing, was roughly in the order of creation by Jeremy Clarke. The archivist has arranged the papers relating to each of his works in its own series, chronologically by date of creation:

MS 452 01: Praise (2009)
MS 452 02: Devon Hymns (2010)
MS 452 03: Walking in Beauty (2011)
MS 452 04: Incidents of travel : a journey throgh love(2012)
MS 452 05: Common Prayer (2012)
MS 452 06: Spatiamentum (2014)
MS 452 07: Psalms in the Vulgar Tongue: 51 poems in the tradition of the psalms (2014)
MS 452 08: Host (2016)
MS 452 09: Cathedral (2017)
MS 452 10: Fallen (2018)
MS 452 11: Lament (2018)
MS 452 12: Last Dream Before Sleep (2020)
MS 452 13: Stations (2020)
MS 452 14: Bread of Broken Ground - a Mass (2020)
MS 452 15: Breath & Echo (2021)
MS 452 16: The Desire Field (2022)
MS 452 17: The Last Stone (2024)
MS 452 18: Stonelight (2024)
MS 452 19: Stone Hours (2024)

Associated material

Jeremy Clarke's website: https://jeremyclarke.bandcamp.com

Existence and location of originals

Permanent installations of Jeremy Clarke's poetry reside in the London churches of St Pancras Old Church (Bloomsbury), the Church of St Anselm and St Cecilia (Holborn) and Notre Dame de France (Soho).