Leonard Clark (poet)

Leonard Clark (1 August 1905 – September 1981) was an English poet, writer, editor, and educator.

[1] Clark was born on 1 August 1905 in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey to a governess out of wedlock.

[1] Though he came to consider Sarah Annie, Allan, George, and Frederick his family, he struggled with feeling like an outside throughout his life.

[3] Clark married Florence Tobias in 1933 at St. Stephen's Church; Harvey served as his best man.

[1] Clark wrote more than 50 books of poetry, prose, anthologies, and essays of his own and edited more than 20 more during his career.

[2] He wrote a biography of Alfred Williams in his early years and edited collections by Andrew Young, Walter de la Mare, and Ivor Gurney.

[1] In 2018, Tom Cousins painted a mural on the side of a Cinderford bakery featuring Clark along with fellow Forest poets Winifred Foley and Harry Beddington.