Clere Parsons

Clere Parsons (1908–1931) was an English poet, born in India.{{cite book|editor=Ousby, Ian|title=The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English|year=1993|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=0-521-44086-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto00iano_0/page/721 721]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto00iano_0/page/721}}

He was educated at Christ Church,{{cn|date=August 2022}} University of Oxford, and edited the 1928 edition of Oxford Poetry.{{cn|date=August 2022}}

His only collection, Poems, was published after his death by Faber & Faber. Both the Oxford University Press Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry, and Penguin Books Poetry of the Thirties include selections from his work. Richard Burton in his 2013 biography of Basil Bunting, A Strong Song Tows Us,Burton, Richard (2013). A Strong Song Tows Us, Oxford, Prospecta Press/ Infinite Ideas states that "given the evidence of the Poems, (Parsons) would have been a significant voice in twentieth century poetry".

His work was influenced by that of W. H. Auden and Laura Riding, and has been praised by Geoffrey Grigson and C. H. Sisson

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Parsons had Type I diabetes, and died of pneumonia.{{cite web|url=http://www.bookride.com/2009/04/writers-who-were-invalids.html|title=Bookride: Writers who were invalids...Clere Parsons & W. N. P. Barbellion|date=5 April 2009|accessdate=19 September 2010}}