Bøger af Clare Pollard

Clare Pollard's first book for children revisits Arthurian legends in a thrilling tale of adventure and mystery. *The Untameables* turns traditional folklore on its head and forces us to think about how legends are written and whose stories get told.

Why don't they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story?Versailles, 1682. It's a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you'll find a dark undercurrent of vicious gossip and secrets. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born they are.Nobody knows this better than Madame Marie d'Aulnoy. Each week, a rogue group - elites, intellectuals, mostly women - gather at her Parisian home. Finding comfort and creative camaraderie, the group act out Contes de Fées - fairy tales - at a salon that will change the course of literature forever. But among the members, a wolf is lurking. A force more dangerous than any they could conjure in their tales, watching, waiting, reporting, and threatening to destroy them one by one.Brilliant and bawdy, witty and provocative, and inspired by real events, THE MODERN FAIRIES is a dazzling novel about scandals and secrets, and the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times.'Pollard's future, as a novelist, is very bright indeed' The i, praise for Delphi

'Delphi is a compact miracle of a book' Evie Wyld, author of The Bass Rock'Bold, brave and uncompromising, Pollard has found a way to write about the last couple of years which is both truthful and enjoyable to read, which I didn't think was possible' Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Everyone is Still Alive'Dark and dangerous, disturbed and disturbing in equal measure - I loved it' Anna Hope, author of Expectation'I am sick of the future. Up to here with the future. I don't want anything to do with it; don't want it near me' It is 2020 and in a time more turbulent than any of us could have ever imagined, a woman is attempting to write a book about prophecy in the ancient world.Navigating the tightening grip of lockdown, a marriage in crisis, and a ten-year-old son who seems increasingly unreachable, she becomes fixated on our many forms of divination and prediction: on oracles, tarot cards and tea leaves and the questions we have always asked as we scroll and click and rage against our fates. But in doing so she fails to notice the future creeping into the heart of her own home. For despite our best intentions - our sacrifices and our bargains with the gods - time, certainty and, sometimes, those we love, can still slip away ...Heartbreakingly relatable and achingly funny Delphi is both a snapshot and a time capsule, deftly capturing our pasts, our presents, and how we keep on going in a world that is ever more uncertain and absurd.

An introduction to the art of surimono, illustrated with previously unpublished examples from the Ashmolean Museum's collections.

Features around 70 work by Japanese ceramic artist Shozo Michikawa, created between 2003 and 2017.

Poems about children and the stories we tell them, about childbirth, innocence and responsibility and what it means to bring new human beings into this world.

Ovid's poems voiced by female figures from Greek and Roman myth in new 21st century versions, with a cast of women who are brave, bitchy, sexy, suicidal, horrifying, heartbreaking and surprisingly modern.

Clare Pollard's second colleciton includes poems from the edge, confronting evil in its manifestations, especially the bondage of sex and cruelty. They address contemporary issues form confessionalism and reality TV to masculinity in crisis, racial politics, and atheism.

Illustrated discussion of over 50 prints from the Ashmolean Museum's collection serving as an introduction to the life and work of Utagawa Hiroshige. The art and process of Japanese wood-block print making is also covered.

Clare Pollard's fourth collection is steeped in folktale and ballads, and looks at the stories we tell about ourselves. From the Pendle witch-trials in 17th-century Lancashire to the gangs of modern-day east London, Changeling takes on our myths and monsters. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Clare Pollard's third collection is a book about journeys and home. She looks closely at both global issues and the blossom in her yard.

'This is such a striking first book that at any age it would be remarkable - from a teenage writer it leaves you excited that there may be so much more to come' - TIME OUT 'Pollard writes entirely and authentically out of the excited anxieties of female adolescence: its quixotic hopes, its merciless bitchiness and its maiming disappointments...The vioelnt colours, the abrupt swerves of thought and the wilfully obscuring bruising of Pollard's poems distinguish them from the usual twenty-something constructions' - THE TIMES