Clare Pollard

Clare Pollard
Born 1978
Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.
Nationality British
Education Cambridge University
Known for Poetry
Website clarepollard.com

Clare Pollard (born 1978, England) is a poet and playwright.

Early life and education

Pollard was raised in Bolton. She read English at Cambridge University.[1]

Career

At age 19 Pollard published her first poetry collection, The Heavy-Petting Zoo (Bloodaxe Books Ltd. (1997)) [2] In 2000, Pollard won a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award. In 2004, her play The Weather was performed at the Royal Court Theatre. In 2007, My Male Muse, a radio documentary was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.[3][4] In 2009, Pollard and James Byrne edited the Bloodaxe young poets showcase titled Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century.[5] Pollard has been a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Essex University.[6] In 2013, she was the judge for the inaugural international Hippocrates Prize for Young Poets.

Selected bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Clare Pollard. Poetry International Web.
  2. ↑ Sears J. The Heavy-Petting Zoo by Clare Pollard. Pop Matters
  3. ↑ The Weather bear hug Royal Court London. The Independent. Accessed 20 September 2015.
  4. ↑ Staff Fleet Architects. Accessed 20 September 2015.
  5. ↑ Crown S. Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century. The Guardian Accessed 20 September 2015.
  6. ↑ British Council for Literature - Clare Pollard Contemporarywriters.com Accessed 20 September 2015.
  7. ↑ Pollard, C. The Heavy Petting Zoo. Bloodaxe Books, Hexham, England 1998. ISBN 978-1852244811.
  8. ↑ Pollard, C. Bedtime. Bloodaxe Books, Hexham, England, 2002 ISBN 978-1852245931.
  9. ↑ Pollard, C. Look, Clare!, Look! Bloodaxe Books, Hexham, England, 2005. ISBN 978-1852247096.
  10. ↑ Pollard, C. and Byrne, J. (ed.) Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century. Bloodaxe Books, Hexham, England, 2009 ISBN 978-1852248383.
  11. ↑ Changling. The Poetry Archive 2011. ISBN 978-1852249113 Accessed 21 September 2015.
  12. ↑ Nota Benes. World Literature Today, 2013. ISBN 978-1852249762. Accessed 21 September 2015.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/25/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.