{"id":1139,"date":"2024-11-26T08:56:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T08:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=1139"},"modified":"2025-06-24T16:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:59:05","slug":"clare-pollard","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/clare-pollard\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare Pollard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clare Pollard was born in Bolton in 1978 and lives in London. Her collections with Bloodaxe include: <em>The Heavy-Petting Zoo<\/em>\u00a0(1998), which she wrote while still at school;\u00a0<em>Bedtime<\/em> (2002); <em>Look, Clare! Look!<\/em> (2005); <em>Changeling<\/em> (2011), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; and\u00a0<em>Incarnation<\/em> (2017). Her pamphlet <em>The Lives of the Female Poets<\/em> was published by Bad Betty Press in 2019. Her latest full-length collection \u2013 her sixth \u2013 <em>Lives of the Female Poets<\/em>, is published by Bloodaxe Books in 2025. Clare\u2019s play <em>The Weather<\/em> (Faber &amp; Faber, 2004) premiered at the Royal Court Theatre and her documentary for radio, <em>My Male Muse<\/em>\u00a0(2007), was a Radio 4 Pick of the Year. Her version of Ovid\u2019s\u00a0<em>Heroines<\/em> (2013) toured as a one-woman show, and she co-translated Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Sea-Migrations<\/em> (Bloodaxe Books and the Poetry Translation Centre, 2017), which was <em>The Sunday Times<\/em> Poetry Book of the Year. Her non-fiction book <em>Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind our Picture Books<\/em> was published by Fig Tree in 2019. Her novels for adults,\u00a0<i>Delphi<\/i>\u00a0(2022) and\u00a0<i>The Modern Fairies<\/i> (2024), winner of the Tadeusz Bradecki Prize 2025, have been published by Fig Tree in the UK and Avid Reader in the US. Her book for children,<i>The Untameables,\u00a0<\/i>illustrated by Reena Makwana, was published by The Emma Press in 2024. Clare Pollard was Editor of<em> Modern Poetry in Translation<\/em> from 2017 to 2022 and was appointed Artistic Director of the Winchester Poetry Festival in 2022.\u00a0 Her poem &#8216;Pollen&#8217; \u2013 first published in <em>Bad Lilies<\/em> \u2013 was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2022.\u00a0 In 2024 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. <em>Author photo \u00a9 Marcos Avlonitis<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clarepollard.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clarepollard.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clare Pollard was born in Bolton in 1978 and lives in London. Her collections with Bloodaxe include: The Heavy-Petting Zoo\u00a0(1998), which she wrote while still at school;\u00a0Bedtime (2002); Look, Clare! Look! (2005); Changeling (2011), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; and\u00a0Incarnation (2017). Her pamphlet The Lives of the Female Poets was published by Bad Betty Press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1140,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1139","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}