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Clare Pollard has published five collections of poetry. Her poem ‘Pollen’ was nominated for the Forward Prize. Her play The Weather premiered at the Royal Court Theatre and her documentary for radio, 'My Male Muse', was a Radio 4 Pick of the year. She has been involved in numerous translation projects, including translating Ovid’s Heroines, which she toured as a one-woman show. She has also written a non-fiction title - Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children’s Picture Books - and an adult novel, Delphi. The Untameables is her first children’s book.
Genres: Historical
Clare Pollard recommends
Ordinary Time (2024)
Cathy Rentzenbrink
"Witty, tender, heartrending. Ordinary Time is about the huge feelings that howl beneath the surface of the everyday. No one has written this astutely about the inner lives of middle-aged women since Barbara Pym."
The Safekeep (2024)
Yael van der Wouden
"This is a stealthy, simmering novel about complicity and the lies we live by."
Glorious Exploits (2024)
Ferdia Lennon
"Glorious Exploits is an agonising exploration of the cost of violence, for both its winners and losers. It is also a reminder of how dangerous and radical the making of art can be, as the attempt to stage Medea with prisoners-of-war in 412 BC comes to represent war's opposite. This perfect first novel is a tragicomic masterpiece. Ferdia Lennon has created a story worthy of the Athenians: mortal, maddening, heart-mending."
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