Career

Clarke"s debut collection, Devon Hymns (2010), featured artwork by John Berger and Yves Berger. A limited edition chapbook, Incidents of Travel, and Common Prayer (pamphlet) were published in 2012. His second full collection, Spatiamentum, was published in 2014 (illustrations by Italian artist Paola Volpato).

All titles were published by Rufus Books, Toronto.

A third collection, Psalms in the Vulgar Tongue, was privately printed in London in 2015. Clarke has collaborated with British sculptor Emily Young on a work in stone for Street Pancras Old Church in London.

The stone, a polished block of Carrera marble, is inscribed with an extract from Clarke"s poem Praise. lieutenant reads: "And I am here / in a place beyond desire / or fear".

lieutenant was unveiled in 2009.

Clarke participated in the exhibition, Works On Paper (Crypt Gallery, London, 1–14 September 2014), showing 20 framed psalms (taken from his collection Psalms in the Vulgar Tongue). Each piece is a handwritten manuscript in brown ink on stained wood with original poem. In John Berger"s novel, From A to X (Verso, 2008) Clarke appears as the character Hasan - a street sweeper and poet, living alone in a spare, unfurnished room.

Clarke is currently a Poet in Residence at Eton College.