Clive Blake

Clive Blake is a poet shaped by Cornwall — its fields, its folklore, its Celtic roots and its rugged sense of place. Raised on his family’s farm at St Wenn and now living in Newquay, Clive’s life has always been woven into the rhythms of Cornish land and community. It is this lifelong connection that has led many to know him simply as ‘Cornish Poet Clive Blake’.

Performing as ‘Clive Live’, Clive brings humour, warmth and emotional depth to audiences across Cornwall and beyond. His poems have topped Google searches for an extraordinary variety of themes — from Cornish Poem and Eco Poem to Wedding Poem, Surfing Poem, Disability Poem, Penguin Poem and Zebra Poem. This unusual spread reflects the diversity of his imagination and the wide appeal of his work.

His latest collection, ‘Clive’s Uni‑Verse – A Cornishman’s Take on Life’, gathers 100 poems that travel from the everyday to the cosmic, always anchored in the Cornish spirit that has shaped him.