It is huge in scope, in energy, in heart.It is difficult to remember a recent book that is at once so beautiful and yet so thought provoking. Clarke's most recent novel is THE WATER THEATRE (published in September 2010 by Alma Booka), of which a review by Antonia Senior in THE TIMES of 28 August said "There is nothing small about this book. His novel The Chymical Wedding, partly inspired by the life of Mary Anne Atwood, won the Whitbread Prize in 1989. Four radio plays were broadcast by BBC Radio 4, and a number of his articles and reviews have been published in 'Resurgence' and 'The London Magazine.' Lindsay has one daughter from his first marriage. Paris and Helen, Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, Achilles, Odysseus and Hector are skilfully rejuvenated in this startlingly contemporary drama. Clarke lectures in creative writing at Cardiff University, and teaches writing workshops in London and Bath. Vigorous new life is breathed into the myth's of Homer's Iliad in Lindsay Clarke's new dramatic retelling of the wars fought for the Bronze Age City of Troy. He currently lives in Somerset with his wife, Phoebe Clare, who is a ceramic artist. He worked in education for many years, in Africa, America and the UK, before becoming a full-time writer. Whitbread-winner Clarke (The Chymical Wedding, 1989, etc.) offers a fresh and lively retelling of the Trojan War: a kind of ur-text of the events that made Homer famous.Peleus and Thetis provide a. He was educated at Heath Grammar School in Halifax and at King's College Cambridge.
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