Clive Watkins was born in Sheffield in 1945 and grew up and was educated in Liverpool. He took a law degree but, repenting of that profession, became a teacher. On his retirement in 1998, he was head teacher of one of the oldest secondary schools in Yorkshire. His poems have appeared in a number of magazines, including Agenda, Outposts, Poetry Durham, Poetry Wales, The Malahat Review, The New Welsh Review, and The Rialto. He has also published papers on Conrad Aiken and Wallace Stevens, and on translations of Shakespeare and Montale.
"Watkins is a poet's poet, a masterful writer of metrical verse - rhymed and blank - but one whose free verse is as good as his formal, a rare achievement. The work is rhythmically powerful and unerring in its lineation, informed as it is by the author's lifetime of teaching Shakespeare. At fifty-seven, Clive Watkins is a fully formed poet, and his first book cause for gratitude both to him and to the publishing house that brings him to us. Timothy Murphy
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