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In Dark Times: Some Thoughts on Political Poetry | clarepollard
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Clare's Official Site. Laquo; Love Letter after Else Lasker-Schüler. In Dark Times: Some Thoughts on Political Poetry. April 16, 2015 by poetclare. Last night I was at the Betsy Trotwood. For the launch of. Emma Press’ political anthology. I was pleased to have two poems included, and it was an interesting event with some blisteringly great moments – Kayo Chingonyi’s ‘Legerdemain’ and Luke Kennard’s ‘ Poor Door. A book which spoke very interestingly about war and jingoism via ancient Chinese texts. Start...
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Love Letter after Else Lasker-Schüler | clarepollard
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Clare's Official Site. Laquo; All The Amazing Women We’ve Never Heard Of. In Dark Times: Some Thoughts on Political Poetry. Love Letter after Else Lasker-Schüler. April 13, 2015 by poetclare. Hedwig’s Chapel in the schnee. Breakfast the next day – and it was one of the most romantic, joyous weddings I’ve been to. There was even a carriage pulled by miniature horses, and a burst of. The Sound of Music. Love Letter after Else Lasker-Schüler. For Anna and Rufus. Like a secret spring. Under the reeling moon.
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All The Amazing Women We’ve Never Heard Of | clarepollard
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Clare's Official Site. Laquo; A New MA, Ariel and Getting on With It: A Few Links. Love Letter after Else Lasker-Schüler. All The Amazing Women We’ve Never Heard Of. March 26, 2015 by poetclare. Photo of Else Lasker-Schüler). Simply haven’t been told about. A couple of weeks ago, for example, I was googling. As I’d promised to translate something for a wedding in Bavaria, and I came across ‘Dann’ ‘Then’. With its swoony ending:. I would burn upon your mouth. In a dream of a thousand years. Cruelty, Killi...
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LINKS | clarepollard
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Clare's Official Site. Ink, Sweat and Tears. Jared A. Carnie. Poet on the Rocks. Stand up and Spit. Modern Poetry in Translation. Black-Eyed Susans, Gin-in-a-tin and Ledbury. Propaganda vs the People. Ink, Sweat and Tears. Jared A. Carnie. Poet on the Rocks. Stand up and Spit. Modern Poetry in Translation. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Follow “clarepollard”. Get every new post delivered to your Inbox. Join 3,790 other followers. Build a website with WordPress.com.
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Personal Poetry News (part 1) | Ravenshead Press
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Specialising in publishing poetry. Personal Poetry News (part 1). September 28, 2013. Just over a year ago I attended the Poetry Book Fair in London as a volunteer. It was such an enjoyable day I volunteered again this year, but that comes later. My real point here was that after the fair I was chatting with Chrissy Williams about poetry events, I was bemoaning the general lack of poetry around the Hampshire area. ( Warning number one: beware what you bemoan. At the spoken word tent organised by The Artf...
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2015/1984 | clarepollard
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Clare's Official Site. Laquo; In Dark Times: Some Thoughts on Political Poetry. May 13, 2015 by poetclare. So A Tory majority which is actually trying to scrap the actual human rights act. And today the BBC reports that Cameron is to say: “For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens ‘as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'”. To be a handbook for good governance, is about to put an end to Thoughtcrime. At the moment we are losing the fight with Doublethink...
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PRESS | clarepollard
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Clare's Official Site. Some Reviews of Clare’s Work:. Pollard, a wunderkind who wrote her first poetry collection while still at school, is a good match for the equally precocious Ovid…these are lively versions, seasoned with both agony and irony, reanimating Ovid’s originals. -Josephine Balmer,. This fourth collection from the Bolton-born, East London-living, wildly talented young poet is a total beauty. Edgy and alive, youthful and intelligenta particular strength of this collection is Pollard’s contem...
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POEMS | clarepollard
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Clare's Official Site. Some of Clare’s poems appear on The Poetry Archive. Some of Clare’s work also appears at Poetry International. We were alive that evening, on the north Yorkshire moors,. In a valley of scuffed hills and smouldering gorse. Pheasants strutted, their feathers as richly patterned. As Moroccan rugs, past the old Roma caravan. Candles, a rose-cushioned bed, etched glass. That I’d hired to imagine us gipsies. As our bacon and bean stew bubbled,. In your muddy boots, there in the wild.
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Clare's Official Site. Https:/ clarepollard.wordpress.com. Posts by Clare Pollard:. August 3, 2016. July 19, 2016. Black-Eyed Susans, Gin-in-a-tin and Ledbury. June 28, 2016. Propaganda vs the People. June 14, 2016. April 20, 2016. April 2, 2016. Af Klimt, Kaufman and Kane. March 16, 2016. Older Posts ». Black-Eyed Susans, Gin-in-a-tin and Ledbury. Propaganda vs the People. Ink, Sweat and Tears. Jared A. Carnie. Poet on the Rocks. Stand up and Spit. Modern Poetry in Translation. Blog at WordPress.com.
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