Description
The poems in Clare Pollard’s fifth collection Incarnation are 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 and The Tiger who Came to Tea make appearances alongside biblical tales: the ark, the whale’s 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.
Luck Is the Hook 
The Tailor's Three Sons & Other New York Poems 
The First Poems in English (Penguin Classics) 
Will Burns 
The Quiet Music of Gently Falling Snow - Compact Edition 
The Visitations 
Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy