Polly Clark was born in Toronto in 1968 and has pursued a number of careers, including zoo-keeping in Edinburgh and teaching English in Hungary, and in 1997 she received an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry. Take Me With You was the Poetry Book Society Winter 2005 Choice and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Since then, her short collection A Handbook for the Afterlife (Templar, 2015) was shortlisted in the Michael Marks Awards. She has also written several novels, including Larchfield (Quercus, 2017) which revolves around the life of W. H. Auden; Tiger (Quercus, 2019), shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year; and Ocean (Eye/Lightening, 2025).
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