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- Release Year
- 2025
- ISBN
- 9781780377476
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
ISBN-10
1780377479
ISBN-13
9781780377476
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2346510081
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lives of the Female Poets
Number of Pages
72 Pages
Language
English
Topic
European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2025
Genre
Poetry
Format
Uk-Trade Paper
Dimensions
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
5.3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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Reviews
'Taking its name - and project - from Samuel Johnson's 1781 all-male Lives of the Poets , Pollard's Lives of the Female Poets pays tribute to the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, Forough Farrokhzad, Praxilla, Emily Brontë and Wanda Coleman, juxtaposing poetic history with scenes from her own contemporary life as a female poet.[...] In establishing a tradition of women and women's (written) work, Pollard elevates women's work and lives (embodied, messy, meaty, boozy) to being worthy of poetry.' - Ellora Sutton, Mslexia 'Pollard's latest collection spans the breadth of human creativity and creation. It's at once a joyous tribute to some of history's greatest female poets and to the smaller things that make a life - like cocktails, and head lice. These poems are physical and playful, bold yet delicate as we're swept along by references and allusions that dance off the page. It's poetry at its most confident. In the crescendoing titular poem Pollard's "saintly Poetess" deservedly finds her place in the canon she's honouring.' - Nasim Rebecca Asl, Poetry Book Society Autumn Bulletin 2025 'Pollard's is a gritty reality, but one grounded with a culturally aware, geographically various, and historically wide-ranging sensibility: there are versions of creation myths, fairy tales, mystic poems, and laments for lost contemporaries... clear-eyed, intelligent questioning of what the world today offers our children, our future(s).' -- Heidi Williamson, The Poetry School 'Her work really is emphatically of our time, capturing the world in its beauties and horrors in writing that's technically superb, but which also has what, if I was a sentimental chap, I'd call heart.' -- Ian McMillan, The Verb '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, 'Pollard's is a gritty reality, but one grounded with a culturally aware, geographically various, and historically wide-ranging sensibility: there are versions of creation myths, fairy tales, mystic poems, and laments for lost contemporaries... clear-eyed, intelligent questioning of what the world today offers our children, our future(s).' -- Heidi Williamson, The Poetry School 'Her work really is emphatically of our time, capturing the world in its beauties and horrors in writing that's technically superb, but which also has what, if I was a sentimental chap, I'd call heart.' -- Ian McMillan, The Verb '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
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
821.914
Table Of Content
11 Poetess12 Inana after Enheduanna14 On Emily Brontë, Aged Six17 Pollen18 The Head-louse20 Praxilla22 In Nunhead Cemetery (for Charlotte Mew)23 The White Lady26 Rye Lane28 Sestina for Elizabeth Bishop30 Pothos32 Housecat33 Cocktail List33 Red Witch34 Margarita35 French 7536 Negroni37 Old-Fashioned38 Blue Hawaii39 Spoils40 Two Sonnets for Anne Locke42 The Sex Life of Emily Brontë45 The Craving46 The Pub Crawl48 Three-Martini Afternoon50 Improvisatrice53 Emily Brontë and the Critic55 Pornhub56 Why I Won't Listen to Sad Pop Songs Any More58 Last Word: a glosa for Wanda Coleman60 Poetry after Marianne Moore62 The Lives of the Female Poets71 Acknowledgements
Synopsis
Clare Pollard cocks a snook at Dr Johnson's all-male Lives of the Poets in chronicling her own life and theirs in her Lives of the Female Poets. These portraits and self portraits offer glimpses into the poet's own everyday life all whilst in conversation with female poets through the ages., Clare Pollard thumbs her nose at Dr Johnson's all-male Lives of the Poets in chronicling her own life and theirs in her Lives of the Female Poets . These portraits and self portraits offer glimpses into the poet's own everyday life - from nit-combing and laundry to pollen counts and cocktails, watching school plays to shopping on Rye Lane - all whilst in conversation with female poets through the ages. Playing with forms from the version to the glosa , these are poems that remix, adapt and channel figures from Enheduanna, the first recorded poet, through to Wanda Coleman. Probing the idea of the 'Poetess' over time, there are also poems about writers' lives - sonnets for Anne Locke, who wrote the first English sonnet sequence; a sestina for Elizabeth Bishop; a series of prose poems about Emily Brontë; and a look at the tragic life of L.E.L. Whether imagining a 'three-martini afternoon' at the Ritz with Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, or exploring the ways women writers have been erased from the canon in the book's long, closing poem, Clare Pollard's playful sixth collection celebrates and commemorates all those female poets who have come before., Clare Pollard cocks a snook at Dr Johnson's all-male Lives of the Poets in chronicling her own life and theirs in her Lives of the Female Poets. These portraits and self portraits offer glimpses into the poet's own everyday life - from nit-combing and laundry to pollen counts and cocktails, watching school plays to shopping on Rye Lane - all whilst in conversation with female poets through the ages.Playing with forms from the version to the glosa, these are poems that remix, adapt and channel figures from Enheduanna, the first recorded poet, through to Wanda Coleman. Probing the idea of the 'Poetess' over time, there are also poems about writers' lives - sonnets for Anne Locke, who wrote the first English sonnet sequence; a sestina for Elizabeth Bishop; a series of prose poems about Emily Brontë; and a look at the tragic life of L.E.L.Whether imagining a 'three-martini afternoon' at the Ritz with Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, or exploring the ways women writers have been erased from the canon in the book's long, closing poem, Clare Pollard's playful sixth collection celebrates and commemorates all those female poets who have come before.
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- s***o (327)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe item’s appearance is much better than I expected. The physical condition is exactly as described in the listing. In my honest opinion, the quality of this item makes this the perfect addition to my collection. The value of this transaction was increased due to the seller’s prompt responses in securely packaging and shipping the item. Thank you for the opportunity to purchase this! I recommend this seller and I’ve added the seller to my Follow List.
- t***e (93)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseDescription of 'like new' was accurate, book arrived a couple of days ahead of estimated date, and it arrived in a slightly padded envelope but no damage was on the book. The price was a little high for a book that's 2 years old, but cheaper than what I found elsewhere. I would buy from this seller again.