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Incarnation
Clare Pollard
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Description for Incarnation
Paperback. Poems about children and the stories we tell them, about childbirth, innocence and responsibility and what it means to bring new human beings into this world. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 124.
The poems in Clare Pollard's new collection Incarnation are about our children and the stories that we tell them. Whether looking at the discourse around pregnancy, describing the pain of childbirth or thinking about surveillance at soft play, they blur the personal and political. Pinocchio, Hamelin, Alice and The Tiger who Came to Tea make appearances alongside biblical tales: the ark, the whale's belly, the Moses basket in the rushes. There are poems for lost daughters - Amy Winehouse, Madeleine McCann, the victims of honour killings - and lost sons. There are also poems about innocence and responsibility which ask ... Read more
The poems in Clare Pollard's new collection Incarnation are about our children and the stories that we tell them. Whether looking at the discourse around pregnancy, describing the pain of childbirth or thinking about surveillance at soft play, they blur the personal and political. Pinocchio, Hamelin, Alice and The Tiger who Came to Tea make appearances alongside biblical tales: the ark, the whale's belly, the Moses basket in the rushes. There are poems for lost daughters - Amy Winehouse, Madeleine McCann, the victims of honour killings - and lost sons. There are also poems about innocence and responsibility which ask ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780373379
SKU
V9781780373379
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99-99
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 Incarnation
'Her work really is emphatically of our time, capturing the world in its beauties and horrors in writing that's technically superb, but which also has what, if I was a sentimental chap, I'd call heart.' - Ian McMillan, The Verb; 'The themes are ancient - guilt, grief, the almost unbearable com-mingling of beauty and suffering - but shown through contemporary ... Read more