Video
Our videos page includes readings of John Clare’s poems by well-known actors, including Richard Burton, Toby Jones, Patrick Stewart, Michael Sheen and Tom Hiddleston. In addition, you can watch Ronald Blyth, the John Clare Society’s first President and author of Akenfield, discuss his attachment to the poet, and watch a panel discussion about musical settings of John Clare’s poetry recorded on the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of his first  book Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery.

Audio
John Clare has been the subject of Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time, an episode of Omnibus, and as the subject of a BBC Radio 4 Great Lives broadcast featuring the poet Wendy Cope. You can listen to these, and to Ted Hughes’ reading of John Clare’s ‘Nightingales Nest’ at Westminster Abbey during the ceremony in which Clare’s plaque was unveiled in Poets’ Corner.

Gallery
To come

Library
The library offers links to a range of publications by John Clare or about John Clare that are freely available through the internet. Many are from the Internet Archive, a non-profit ‘digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.’ It has links to millions of books, films and videos, and music. The fifty million books include many first editions scanned by mainly American universities. Others can be found on Google Books.

Links
Discover some of the wealth of material to be found online relating to John Clare, including the Helpston Historical Society, John Clare Cottage, and the entry for John Clare in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.