Clare Pollard (born 1978, England) is a poet and playwright.
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Clare Pollard | |
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Born | 1978 Bolton, Greater Manchester, England |
Nationality | British |
Education | Cambridge University |
Known for | Poetry |
Website | clarepollard |
Pollard was raised in Bolton[citation needed]. She was educated at Turton School in Bromley Cross. She read English at Cambridge University.[1]
At age 19 Pollard published her first poetry collection, The Heavy-Petting Zoo (Bloodaxe Books Ltd. (1997))[2] In 2000, Pollard won a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award. In 2004, her play The Weather was performed at the Royal Court Theatre[citation needed]. In 2007, My Male Muse, a radio documentary was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.[3][4] In 2009, Pollard and James Byrne edited the Bloodaxe young poets showcase titled Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century.[5] Pollard has been a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Essex University.[6] In 2013, she was the judge for the inaugural international Hippocrates Prize for Young Poets[citation needed], and she has since judged the PBS Next Generation list, Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize, Manchester International Poetry Prize, the Northern Writer's Awards and the T. S. Eliot Prize. She is the editor of Modern Poetry in Translation.
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