Clive Fencott (born 1952) is a writer and sound poet, a performer associated with the British Poetry Revival,[1] and an academic.
Fencott was born in Lydney and began writing poetry in the mid-sixties while studying at art college.
He later worked with Bob Cobbing, and also with cris cheek and Lawrence Upton in the performance group JGJGJG, of which he was a founder member.
In the 1970s and 1980s his work was published by small press companies such as: Writers Forum, Pirate Press, Underwich Editions and Bluff Books; and magazines Rawz, Poetry Information, words worth, and Pod.
In the early 1990s he began an association with Bill Griffiths, producing two co-written pieces for performance: The Dinosaur Park and Variations on the Life of Cuthbert.