Incarnation

About Clare Pollard

Clare Pollard was born in Bolton in 1978 and lives in London. She has published five collections with Bloodaxe: The Heavy-Petting Zoo (1998) which she wrote while still at school; Bedtime (2002); Look Clare! Look! (2005); Changeling (2011) a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; and Incarnation (2017). Her translation Ovid's Heroines was published by Bloodaxe in 2013. Her first play The Weather (Faber 2004) premièred at the Royal Court Theatre. She works as an editor broadcaster and teacher. Her documentary for radio My Male Muse (2007) was a Radio 4 Pick of the Year. She is co-editor with James Byrne of the anthology Voice Recognition: 21 poets for the 21st century (Bloodaxe Books 2009) and translator (with Maxamed Xasan Alto and Said Jama Hussein) of Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf's The Sea-Migrations (Somali title: Tahriib) published by Bloodaxe Books in 2017 with The Poetry Translation Centre. In 2017 she took over the editorship of Modern Poetry in Translation. Her non-fiction book Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind our Picture Books was published by Fig Tree in 2019.