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"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 globalised life in all its grossness and glory - Pollard's wit, honesty and recklessness." --- Frances Leviston, Yorkshire Post
"Clare Pollard has so much youthful talent that it's alarming. The poems 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 - I loved the headlong rush of it all." - --Catherine Czerkawska, Mslexia
"The themes are ancient - guilt, grief, the almost unbearable com-mingling of beauty and suffering - but shown through contemporary globalised life in all its grossness and glory - Pollard's wit, honesty and recklessness." --- Frances Leviston, Yorkshire Post
"Clare Pollard has so much youthful talent that it's alarming. The poems 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 - I loved the headlong rush of it all." --- Catherine Czerkawska, Mslexia
"The themes are ancient - guilt, grief, the almost unbearable com-mingling of beauty and suffering - but shown through contemporary globalised life in all its grossness and glory - Pollard's wit, honesty and recklessness." --- Frances Leviston, Yorkshire Post
"Clare Pollard has so much youthful talent that it's alarming. The poems 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 - I loved the headlong rush of it all." - --Catherine Czerkawska, Mslexia
"The themes are ancient - guilt, grief, the almost unbearable com-mingling of beauty and suffering - but shown through contemporary globalised life in all its grossness and glory - Pollard's wit, honesty and recklessness." --- Frances Leviston, Yorkshire Post
"Clare Pollard has so much youthful talent that it's alarming. The poems 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 - I loved the headlong rush of it all." --- Catherine Czerkawska, Mslexia
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Clare Pollard's fourth collection is steeped in folktale and ballads, and looks at the stories we tell about ourselves. From the Pendle witch-trials in 17th-century Lancashire to the gangs of modern-day east London, "Changeling" takes on our myths and monsters. These are poems of place that journey from Zennor to Whitby, Broadstairs to Brick Lane. Whether relocating the traditional ballad 'The Twa Corbies' to war-torn Iraq, introducing us to the bearded lady Miss Lupin, or giving us a glimpse of the 'beast of Bolton', "Changeling" is a collection about our relationship with the Other: fear and trust, force and freedom. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
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To judge a book by it's cover... this rather put me off. Yet after reading it, the cover grows on me. It is a bit of folk-legend out of place in the modern world... try not to look at the cover until you've read it!
She recently read 'Broadstairs' from this book on Radio4 and it is one of the stronger poems with exciting, tumbling pace. But it has many good companions here that, like the best poetry, has one coming back to read again and wonder why the meaning has changed.
So important for me personally: this book is cleanly printed on good but slightly thin paper; although thin it is just too big for my jacket pocket.
She recently read 'Broadstairs' from this book on Radio4 and it is one of the stronger poems with exciting, tumbling pace. But it has many good companions here that, like the best poetry, has one coming back to read again and wonder why the meaning has changed.
So important for me personally: this book is cleanly printed on good but slightly thin paper; although thin it is just too big for my jacket pocket.
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