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Lives of the Female Poets
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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.
'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
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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.
'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
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Data wydania: 25.09.2025
Liczba stron: 80
Wymiary: 15.6x23.4
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
Wydawca: BLOODAXE BOOKS LTD
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Tytuł:Lives of the Female Poets
EAN: 9781780377476
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