Jack Clemo

Reginald John Clemo (Jack Clemo) (March 11 1916 - July 25 1994) was an English poet and writer, strongly associated both with his native Cornwall and his Christian belief. His work is visionary and inspired by landscape.

He was born near St. Austell, and had no formal schooling after age 13. He became deaf around age 20, and blind in 1955. His early work was published in the local press; he first received recognition in connection with the Festival of Britain.

Works

• Wilding Graft. (1948) novel
• Confession of a Rebel (1949) autobiography
• The Clay Verge (1951) poems
• The Invading Gospel (1958) theology
• The Map of Clay)(1961) poems
• Cactus on Carmel (1967) poems
• The Echoing Tip (1971)
• Broad Autumn (1975)
• Selected Poems (1988)
• Approach to Murano (1993) poems Bloodaxe
• The Cured Arno (1995) poems Bloodaxe
• The Awakening - Poems Newly Found edited by John Hurst, Alan M. Kent and Andrew C. Symons
• The Shadowed Bed novel
• The Clay Kiln novel