Gillian Clarke branches out into John Lewis
We’ve had poems on show in shops in Bolton, and along the Rochdale canal – and now the national poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, has teamed up with John Lewis, and written a poem that is being displayed in the window of the store’s Cardiff branch.
Clarke’s poem, Home, was written to mark the branch’s third anniversary, according to the Guardian, which reports her saying that she hopes the idea could be extended to John Lewis’s other branches around the country - with poems from, say, Carol Ann Duffy displayed in the Manchester branch, or Liz Lochhead in Glasgow. You can read Clarke’s poem here.