Look Clare, Look! by Clare Pollard
Clare Pollard's third collection is a book about journeys and home. She looks closely at both global issues and the blossom in her yard.
Pollard’s poems are like shards of glass, brittle, dangerous things that work their way under your skinHer voice captures the pain, anxiety and emptiness of a generation weaned on Coke and Diamond White, reared on fast food and TV, and now entering adulthood armed with utterly ephemeral cultural reference points and a strong suit in self-destruction…Her poems compulsively re-enact the reaching out to life and the withdrawing in pain…Pollard is a poet of the 21st century, a witness of the present and a shaper of its voice. -- John Sears * PopMatters *
Clare Pollard was born in Bolton in 1978 and lives in London. She has published five collections with Bloodaxe: The Heavy-Petting Zoo (1998), which she wrote while still at school; Bedtime (2002); Look, Clare! Look! (2005); Changeling (2011), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; and Incarnation (2017). Her translation Ovid's Heroines was published by Bloodaxe in 2013. Her first play The Weather (Faber, 2004) premièred at the Royal Court Theatre. She works as an editor, broadcaster and teacher. Her documentary for radio, My Male Muse (2007), was a Radio 4 Pick of the Year. She is co-editor, with James Byrne, of the anthology Voice Recognition: 21 poets for the 21st century (Bloodaxe Books, 2009), and translator (with Maxamed Xasan ‘Alto’ and Said Jama Hussein) of Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf's The Sea-Migrations (Somali title: Tahriib), published by Bloodaxe Books in 2017 with The Poetry Translation Centre. In 2017 she took over the editorship of Modern Poetry in Translation. Her non-fiction book Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind our Picture Books was published by Fig Tree in 2019.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852247096 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852247096 |
| Title | Look Clare, Look! |
| Author | Clare Pollard |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2005-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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