The poems in Clare PollardsIncarnationare about our children and the stories that we tell them. Whether looking at the discourse around pregnancy, describing the pain of childbirth or thinking about surveillance at soft play, they blur the personal and political. Pinocchio, Hamelin, Alice andThe Tiger who Came to Teamake appearances alongside biblical tales the ark, the whales belly, the Moses basket in the rushes. There are poems for lost daughters Amy Winehouse, Madeleine McCann, the victims of honour killings and lost sons. There are also poems about innocence and responsibility which ask what it means to bring new human beings into this world, and how we shape them through our words.Since her late teens, Clare Pollard has kept her poetic finger on the pulse of the world, writing poems of fierce love about the full scope of contemporary life from the intimacy of motherhood and the divided streets of London to elegies for the victims of honour killings and the climate crisis. Wonderfully skilled and with a rare lyrical gift, her poems ask today the questions the rest of us will ask tomorrow. Owen Sheers on Clare Pollard, one of the ten writers asking questions to shape our future he selected for the National Centre for Writings International Literature Showcase in 2020.

Binding: Paperback;74 pages; Publisher: Bloodaxe Books; Classification: DCF; Weight: 248 g; Dimensions: 139 x 216 x 16

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