Clare Pollard
Clare Pollard is a poet and playwright.Early life and education
Pollard was raised in Bolton. She was educated at Turton School in Bromley Cross. She read English at Cambridge University.Career
At age 19 Pollard published her first poetry collection, The Heavy-Petting Zoo In 2000, Pollard won a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award. In 2004, her play The Weather was performed at the Royal Court Theatre. In 2007, My Male Muse, a radio documentary was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In 2009, Pollard and James Byrne edited the Bloodaxe young poets showcase titled Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century. Pollard has been a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Essex University. In 2013, she was the judge for the inaugural international Hippocrates Prize for Young Poets.Selected bibliography
- The Heavy Petting Zoo.
- Bedtime.
- Look, Clare! Look!.
- Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century.
- Changling.
- Ovid's Heroines.
