Clare Pollard
@poetclare.bsky.social
Novelist. Poet. Reader.
🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS, etc. 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS coming 2026
Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS, etc. 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS coming 2026
Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
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COVER REVEAL for The Othernauts!!! Thankyou to illustrator Macha Yao for bringing Phoebe, Perry, Cora and the Argo to life! Can’t wait to take you on this adventure 🌊🏛️🏺🐍♟️⚡️🔮⚓️🐉 @bonnierbooks.bsky.social
Maggie Nelson on Swift and Plath in her new book ‘The Slicks’. yes please www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
‘Ambition is a punishing sphere for women’: author Maggie Nelson on why Taylor Swift is the Sylvia Plath of her generation
What do Swift and Plath have in common, and should Kamala Harris have spoken out about her political ambitions? The Argonauts author turns her lens on poetry, pop and patriarchy
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Maggie Nelson on Swift and Plath in her new book ‘The Slicks’. yes please www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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New Hollywood blacklist just dropped www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/11...
Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel
It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.
www.worldofreel.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
New Hollywood blacklist just dropped www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/11...
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These poems probe and worry syntax into a frank and absorbing poetic
— Jack Underwood
Jake Wild Hall’s voice has a clarity that will break you
— Clare Pollard
painful and beautiful to read
— Caroline Bird
A welcomed return from Jake Wild Hall.
— Yomi Ṣode
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— Jack Underwood
Jake Wild Hall’s voice has a clarity that will break you
— Clare Pollard
painful and beautiful to read
— Caroline Bird
A welcomed return from Jake Wild Hall.
— Yomi Ṣode
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
These poems probe and worry syntax into a frank and absorbing poetic
— Jack Underwood
Jake Wild Hall’s voice has a clarity that will break you
— Clare Pollard
painful and beautiful to read
— Caroline Bird
A welcomed return from Jake Wild Hall.
— Yomi Ṣode
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
— Jack Underwood
Jake Wild Hall’s voice has a clarity that will break you
— Clare Pollard
painful and beautiful to read
— Caroline Bird
A welcomed return from Jake Wild Hall.
— Yomi Ṣode
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
glad this is coming out. I reported a clear dupe scam ad on Instagram last year (an alleged Lucy and Yak sale where on scrutiny the website said Lucy and Yuk! (Sic)) They came back an hour later saying didn‘t violate their guidelines. I haven’t shopped through instagram since, you can’t trust it
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
glad this is coming out. I reported a clear dupe scam ad on Instagram last year (an alleged Lucy and Yak sale where on scrutiny the website said Lucy and Yuk! (Sic)) They came back an hour later saying didn‘t violate their guidelines. I haven’t shopped through instagram since, you can’t trust it
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Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?
November 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?
Tonight at Review bookshop in Peckham - still a couple of free tickets left www.tickettailor.com/events/theso...
Select tickets – POETRY: In conversation with Clare Pollard – Review Bookshop
POETRY: In conversation with Clare Pollard – Review Bookshop, Thu 6 Nov 2025 -
Clare Pollard ...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Tonight at Review bookshop in Peckham - still a couple of free tickets left www.tickettailor.com/events/theso...
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Happy publication day to Katherine Clements!
The final installment of the @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Northern Weird Novella Project, Turbine 34 follows an unnamed scientist who experiences unexplained events whilst camping on the West Yorkshire moors...
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/turb...
The final installment of the @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Northern Weird Novella Project, Turbine 34 follows an unnamed scientist who experiences unexplained events whilst camping on the West Yorkshire moors...
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/turb...
November 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Happy publication day to Katherine Clements!
The final installment of the @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Northern Weird Novella Project, Turbine 34 follows an unnamed scientist who experiences unexplained events whilst camping on the West Yorkshire moors...
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/turb...
The final installment of the @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Northern Weird Novella Project, Turbine 34 follows an unnamed scientist who experiences unexplained events whilst camping on the West Yorkshire moors...
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/turb...
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Lot of posh people calling their kid Noah in the lead up to climate catastrophe, pretty desperate stuff
October 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Lot of posh people calling their kid Noah in the lead up to climate catastrophe, pretty desperate stuff
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Honestly TELL THE STORY. Won’t someone just tell the fucking story of how Brexit created this economic hardship, how a Muslim immigrant just saved the lives of those commuters on that train, won’t someone in politics or even media just connect the fucking dots and TELL THE STORY. IT’S RIGHT THERE
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Honestly TELL THE STORY. Won’t someone just tell the fucking story of how Brexit created this economic hardship, how a Muslim immigrant just saved the lives of those commuters on that train, won’t someone in politics or even media just connect the fucking dots and TELL THE STORY. IT’S RIGHT THERE
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More tickets have been added to our annual lecture! Given this year by Diane Seuss on 10 November @ 7:00pm GMT via Zoom, the lecture will address an education in poetry from outside the borders of academia, specifically that of a poet from the rural working class.
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
More tickets have been added to our annual lecture! Given this year by Diane Seuss on 10 November @ 7:00pm GMT via Zoom, the lecture will address an education in poetry from outside the borders of academia, specifically that of a poet from the rural working class.
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Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?
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I was beyond excited when the author of the new biography of Gertrude Stein, Francesca Wade, said she'd like to write about Alice B. Toklas for @vittles.bsky.social – and her essay is out today! Illustration by Ella Bucknall.
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-alice-...
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-alice-...
The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook: An Audacious Literary Experiment
Gertrude Stein's biographer Francesca Wade on how Alice B. Toklas expanded the genre of autobiography with a book of recipes. Illustration by Ella Bucknall.
www.vittlesmagazine.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I was beyond excited when the author of the new biography of Gertrude Stein, Francesca Wade, said she'd like to write about Alice B. Toklas for @vittles.bsky.social – and her essay is out today! Illustration by Ella Bucknall.
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-alice-...
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-alice-...
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"Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women Trump has fired, a single mom waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with your back against the wall. Your struggle is ours too."
November 5, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Great episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way even if I do say so myself.
Loved talking to Clare about her book and I hope you enjoy listening to it.
Loved talking to Clare about her book and I hope you enjoy listening to it.
happy to be on this excellent podcast talking about Lives of the Female Poets @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social with @gregorykearns.bsky.social
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Episode 32: Clare Pollard - "The poem itself is a haunted house"
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November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Great episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way even if I do say so myself.
Loved talking to Clare about her book and I hope you enjoy listening to it.
Loved talking to Clare about her book and I hope you enjoy listening to it.
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“There are some people who hate London, and hate New York,” Mayor Sadiq Khan told me, on Bloomberg TV. “There's a reason why they demonize London, and now, indeed, New York. Why? Because we are progressive cities. We are liberal cities. We are multicultural cities. And we are incredibly successful.”
November 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
“There are some people who hate London, and hate New York,” Mayor Sadiq Khan told me, on Bloomberg TV. “There's a reason why they demonize London, and now, indeed, New York. Why? Because we are progressive cities. We are liberal cities. We are multicultural cities. And we are incredibly successful.”
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Great piece about why the far rights hate cities, & why we should celebrate them
“Anti-urbanism has long been a first cousin of white supremacy, each feeding into the other, the idea that there is an “authentic” homeland – the bits outside the city – of which the city itself is a kind of betrayal.“
“Anti-urbanism has long been a first cousin of white supremacy, each feeding into the other, the idea that there is an “authentic” homeland – the bits outside the city – of which the city itself is a kind of betrayal.“
Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong | Jonathan Liew
To rightwing populists, places of fluidity and freedom will always be the enemy, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Great piece about why the far rights hate cities, & why we should celebrate them
“Anti-urbanism has long been a first cousin of white supremacy, each feeding into the other, the idea that there is an “authentic” homeland – the bits outside the city – of which the city itself is a kind of betrayal.“
“Anti-urbanism has long been a first cousin of white supremacy, each feeding into the other, the idea that there is an “authentic” homeland – the bits outside the city – of which the city itself is a kind of betrayal.“
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"Madonna in a Fur Coat is a tale of passion set against the economic turmoil of the 1920s: why wouldn't it appeal to readers living through the economic turmoil of the 2020s?"
I spoke to Penguin's publisher and "the internet's librarian" Jack Edwards about why existential classics are on the up:
I spoke to Penguin's publisher and "the internet's librarian" Jack Edwards about why existential classics are on the up:
‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst
Why did an obscure Dostoevsky novella sell 100,000 copies in the UK last year? And why are TikTokers raving about a 1943 Turkish novel? The way young people are discovering books is changing – and the...
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
"Madonna in a Fur Coat is a tale of passion set against the economic turmoil of the 1920s: why wouldn't it appeal to readers living through the economic turmoil of the 2020s?"
I spoke to Penguin's publisher and "the internet's librarian" Jack Edwards about why existential classics are on the up:
I spoke to Penguin's publisher and "the internet's librarian" Jack Edwards about why existential classics are on the up:
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It’s easy to see why Ms. Rachel’s YouTube videos blew up during the early days of the pandemic. They offered reprieve to parents cooped up with kids all day, and allegedly had educational benefits.
Speak and Sell | Sophie Pinkham
The siren song of Ms. Rachel cannot be understood outside of America’s ongoing impoverishment of families.
thebaffler.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It’s easy to see why Ms. Rachel’s YouTube videos blew up during the early days of the pandemic. They offered reprieve to parents cooped up with kids all day, and allegedly had educational benefits.
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Exxon paid for Spanish and Chinese translations of books denying human-caused climate change; flights to Latin American cities for American climate deniers; and public events that allowed those deniers to reach local media and network with politicians.
Oye, Exxon. ¡Qué cabrón eres!
Oye, Exxon. ¡Qué cabrón eres!
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Exxon paid for Spanish and Chinese translations of books denying human-caused climate change; flights to Latin American cities for American climate deniers; and public events that allowed those deniers to reach local media and network with politicians.
Oye, Exxon. ¡Qué cabrón eres!
Oye, Exxon. ¡Qué cabrón eres!
Great to see a new Lynette Roberts collected - a brilliant and undersung poet
📚 A Letter to the Dead by Lynette Roberts, hosted by Francesca Brooks - Tuesday 25 November, 7pm.
This new edition contains sixty-five unpublished poems by Roberts, and a new epilogue highlighting her importance to our understanding of twentieth-century poetry.
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/a-let...
This new edition contains sixty-five unpublished poems by Roberts, and a new epilogue highlighting her importance to our understanding of twentieth-century poetry.
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/a-let...
November 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Great to see a new Lynette Roberts collected - a brilliant and undersung poet
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Is there ever going to be an interviewer who pushes back and tells him that immigrants seeking asylum is different than insane asylums?
O'DONNELL: Are we going to war against Venezuela?
TRUMP: I doubt it. They emptied their mental institutions and insane asylums into the United States of America
TRUMP: I doubt it. They emptied their mental institutions and insane asylums into the United States of America
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Is there ever going to be an interviewer who pushes back and tells him that immigrants seeking asylum is different than insane asylums?
happy to be on this excellent podcast talking about Lives of the Female Poets @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social with @gregorykearns.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/0rMp...
open.spotify.com/episode/0rMp...
Episode 32: Clare Pollard - "The poem itself is a haunted house"
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November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
happy to be on this excellent podcast talking about Lives of the Female Poets @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social with @gregorykearns.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/0rMp...
open.spotify.com/episode/0rMp...
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Hallowe'en special up now. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, with guests Andrew Male and Laura Varnam in conversation with Una McCormack and Andy Miller. 🌬️🎃🧟 @andrewmale.bsky.social @drlauravarnam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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October 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Hallowe'en special up now. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, with guests Andrew Male and Laura Varnam in conversation with Una McCormack and Andy Miller. 🌬️🎃🧟 @andrewmale.bsky.social @drlauravarnam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social
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