Clare Pollard in 2007. Photo by Walnut Whippet. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Clare Pollard (born 1978) is an English poet and playwright.[1]
Life[]
Pollard grew up in Bolton. She read English at the University of Cambridge.[1]
Pollard was included in the "New Poets of 1996" at age 16.[1] She published her debut collection, The Heavy-Petting Zoo, with Bloodaxe Books in 1998, at age 19.[2] She has gone on to write 3 more collections.
Her play The Weather was performed at the Royal Court in 2004,[3] and her radio documentary, My Male Muse, was broadcast in 2007.[4]
Her most recent project is the Bloodaxe young poets showcase, Voice Recognition: 21 poets for the 21st century which she co-edited with poet James Byrne.[5] She is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Essex University.[6] She was the judge for the 2013 International Hippocrates Prize for Schools.
Recognition[]
Pollard won an Eric Gregory Award in 2000.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Heavy Petting Zoo. Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe, 1998.
- Bedtime. Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe, 2002.
- Look! Clare! Look!. Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe, 2005.
- Changeling. Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe, 2011.
Plays[]
- The Weather. London: Faber, 2004.
Edited[]
- Reactions 5: New poetry. Norwich, UK: Pen & Inc, 2005.
- Voice Recognition: 21 poets for the 21st century (edited with James Byrne). Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe, 2009.
Clare Pollard reads her poem 'The Lure'
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[7]
Audio / video[]
- Clare Pollard: Reading from her poems. London: Poetry Archive, 2009.[8]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jayne West, Clare Pollard, Poetry International Archives. Web, Jan. 27, 2021.
- ↑ ‘The Heavy-Petting Zoo by Clare Pollard’ By John Sears http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/heavy-petting-zoo
- ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/the-weatherbear-hug-royal-court-london-754833.html
- ↑ http://www.fleetarchitects.co.uk/more_staff_02.htm
- ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/07/voice-recognition-bloodaxe-poets
- ↑ http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authC2D9C28A0f3602A5CCTjOrED46C6
- ↑ Search results = au:Clare Pollard, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Feb. 22, 2014.
- ↑ Clare Pollard (b. 1978), The Poetry Archive. Web, Feb. 22, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- "The Contradiction"
- "Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe" at The Poetry Shed
- "The Caravan" at Poem of the Week, The Guardian
- Clare Pollard (United Kingdom, 1978) at Poetry International (7 poems)
- Prose
- "Shopping for Poems" at the Poetry Society
- Audio / video
- Books
- Clare Pollard at Amazon.com
- About
- Clare Pollard at Bloodaxe Books
- Clare Pollard at the British Council
- Clare Pollard Official website.
- Interview with Clare Pollard at I Don't Call Myself a Poet, 2012
- Poetry Interview: Clare Pollard at Wales Arts Review, 2013
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