Clive Wilmer teaches at the University of Cambridge, where he is Emeritus Fellow in English at Sidney Sussex College and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of English. He is also an Honorary Fellow of Anglia Ruskin University. He has published six volumes of poetry, mostly with Carcanet Press, which in 2012 produced his New and Collected Poems. In 2009 he was appointed Master of the Guild of St George, the charity created by John Ruskin. He has written and lectured extensively on the work of Ruskin and certain of his followers. In particular, he has edited the Penguin editions of Ruskin’s Unto this Last and Other Writings and William Morris’s News from Nowhere and Other Writings, as well Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Selected Poems and Translations for Carcanet. With George Gömöri he has translated Miklós Radnóti’s Forced March (second edition, Enitharmon, 2003), two volumes by György Petri published by Bloodaxe Books, including Eternal Monday (1999), and two by Gömöri himself. In 1998 Clive Wilmer was awarded the Endre Ady Memorial Medal for Translation by the PEN Club in Budapest, and in 2005 a medal for translators, Pro Cultura Hungarica, by the Hungarian Ministry of Culture. His edition of Thom Gunn's Selected Poems was published by Faber in 2017.
