On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Clare Pollard about breaking your own rules, poems being like haunted houses, and the word poetess.

Clare Pollard is a poet, novelist, children’s author, translator non-fiction writer and editor. She wrote her first poetry collection The Heavy-Petting Zoo (published by Bloodaxe) was written while she was still in school. Her other books include The Modern Fairies, The Untameables, Delphi and her most recent collection of poetry The Lives of the Female Poets is published by Bloodaxe. 

Links to writing

Lives of the Female Poets: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/lives-of-the-female-poets 

Incarnation: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/incarnation-1134

Look, Clare ! Look!: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/look-clare-look--817

Delphi: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/447396/delphi-by-pollard-clare/9780241995266 

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Clare's Poetry Circle Substack: https://clarespoetrycircle.substack.com/

Things I watched in the lead up to this interview

Launch reading by Emilie Jenlinek, Clare Pollard and Jessica Traynor (Bloodaxe): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He4JaXNJzdw

Clare Pollard in conversation with Helen Eastman (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUqZU6JNJo0&t=205s

Poetry as a way to gain control | A Drink with Clare Pollard (Idler): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmB955IJFJg 

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