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Hello and welcome to Frank Skinner's poetry podcast.

Today I want to look at the Cornish poet Jack Clemo.

Jack Clemo was born in 1916 and died in 1994.

And I want to focus on his earlier period.

I want to look at a poem from his first collection,

which was called the Clay Verge.

Why the Clay Verge, that will become very apparent as we go on.

Clemo's obituary in the Independent in 94 when he died described him as remorselessly austere.

But don't let that put you off.

I think he's absolutely brilliant.

And I kind of want to get straight into the

poetry and then we'll jump off for explanations and further discussion. The poem I want to look at

is called a Calvinist in love. I mean, it's already pretty good, you must admit.

And it's from, as I say, his collection, The Clay Verge,

which was published in 1951.

He was, or he certainly described himself as a Calvinist.

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