GILLIAN CLARKE is the National Poet of Wales since 2008 and President of Tŷ Newydd. Her Collected Poems was published in 1997. At the Source, six essays and a journal, appeared in 2008, and her most recent collection of poems, A Recipe for Water, was published in 2009, both by Carcanet.  www.gillianclarke.co.uk  www.sheerpoetry.co.uk

CAROL ANN DUFFY is the Poet Laureate. Her poetry collections include Mean Time (Anvil Press, 1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year), The World’s Wife (Anvil Press, 1999) and her most recent Rapture (Picador, 2005), which was a PBS Autumn Choice and won the T.S. Eliot Prize.  www.sheerpoetry.co.uk