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11%OFFClare Pollard - Bedtime - 9781852245931 - V9781852245931
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Bedtime

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Description for Bedtime Paperback. Includes poems from the edge, confronting evil in its manifestations, especially the bondage of sex and cruelty. They address contemporary issues form confessionalism and reality TV to masculinity in crisis, racial politics, and atheism. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 5. Weight in Grams: 112.
Clare Pollard wrote her first book The Heavy-Petting Zoo while still at school. Its sequel is Bedtime: a setting for intimacy and tenderness as well as cruelty and pretence, where reality and fantasy are blurred. These are cutting poems from the edge, confronting evil in all its manifestations, especially the bondage of sex and cruelty. They address highly contemporary issues, from confessionalism and reality TV to masculinity in crisis, racial politics and atheism.

Product Details

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852245931
SKU
V9781852245931
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-37

About Clare Pollard
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Bedtime
Clare Pollard has so much youthful talent that it’s alarming. The poems in Bedtime have all the virtues of youth. They are raw and sexy, exotic and compelling, their insights at once intimate and universal. There’s a cruel precision of observation too, coupled with a real opulence, about these pieces – and the wonderful, reckless revelling in the language. I ... Read more

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