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Polly Clark is a poet living and working in the UK. Her second collection Take Me With You (Bloodaxe, 2005) was a Poetry Book Society Choice. It was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2005.

Her first book, Kiss, was published in 2000 and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her new collection, Farewell My Lovely is published by Bloodaxe Books in 2009.
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Farewell My Lovely is now published. Read more about it on the site, or why not review it on Amazon?
The Fielding Programme sold out for Spring 2009. We are now taking bookings for autumn. Click on the link to find out more - and if you're a Facebook type why not become a Fan of Fielding and receive updates first?

Fielding Hothouse
is a brand new intensive writing weekend for beginners. Spectacular location, tutors Toby Litt and Polly Clark. Click on the Fielding Programme link for details.
Royal Literary Fund Fellowship
Polly is Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Edinburgh University's department of Lifelong Learning 2008/2009.
The Poetry Archive
Polly has now joined the Poetry Archive. Click here to hear a recording of six poems spanning all three collections. ____________________________________________________

Poem Spot

The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions

by Jacqueline Saphra

There was once a man who claimed he’d been assaulted
by a woman’s underwear. Invited back for coffee,
he’d walked into the kitchen where ranks of brassieres
and panties hung from a ceiling trap in readiness
for ambush. Stockings brushed his cheeks, hooks
and buttons snagged on his hair, straps and ribbons
tied him to a place he’d longed for always without knowing. 
As a fine layer of lace wrapped itself around his eyes,
he was breathless, helpless at the pink coal-face
of femininity, and fell into a beautiful swoon.

 When he woke, he was captive. His life became
a sweet. slow undoing and re-doing of those fastenings
and – or so the story goes – the coffee never came.

Jacqueline Saphra is a poet and playwright and was a resident on the Spring 2009 Fielding Programme.

 

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Cove Park Artists Centre

Modern Poetry in Translation


London Review of Books

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