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Clare Pollard | |
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| Born | 1978 Bolton, Greater Manchester, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Cambridge University |
| Known for | Poetry |
| Website | clarepollard |
Clare Pollard (born 1978, England) is a British writer (poet, novelist and playwright), literary translator and (prize jury) critic.
Pollard was raised in Bolton [ citation needed ]. She was educated at Turton School in Bromley Cross. She read English at Cambridge University. [1]
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 [3] and as well at the Munchner Kammerspiele. [4] In 2007, My Male Muse, a radio documentary was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. [5] [6]
In 2009, Pollard and James Byrne edited the Bloodaxe young poets showcase titled Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century. [7] Pollard has been a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Essex University. [8] In 2013, she was the judge for the inaugural international Hippocrates Prize for Young Poets[ citation needed ], and she has since judged the PBS Next Generation list, Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize, Manchester International Poetry Prize, the Northern Writer's Awards and the T. S. Eliot Prize.
From 2017 to 2022 she has been the editor of Modern Poetry in Translation. Instead she began to work as artistic director of the Winchester Poetry Festival in 2022, her poem Pollen was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2022 and she published her debut novel , Delphi. [9] The novel plot is about social satire on oracles, tarot cards and London family life during the 2020 Covid pandemic lockdown and the shift of everyday life into the internet. It appeared in print 2022 by Fig Tree in the UK and by Avid Reader in the US as well as by Aufbau Verlag in Germany.
Clare Pollard currently (2023) lives in South London with her husband and two children. [10]
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