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 Polly Clark is a poet living and working in the UK. Her second collection Take Me With You (Bloodaxe, 2005) is 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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The Fielding Programme
The first run of the programme in 2008 was a great success. Go to our brand new website by clicking here to find out more.
A Slice of Life: Frieda Hughes critiques 'Buffalo Mozzarella' from Take Me With You in The Times. Click here to read the analysis.
The Arvon Foundation
In November Polly will be teaching with novelist Toby Litt at The Hurst. Go to The Arvon Foundation website for more details.
The Poet and the Painter
Sponsored by the Royal Watercolour Society and the poetry Society, this is an exhibition of paintings resulting from collaborations between painters and poets including James Lasdun and Kathleen Jamie. Polly is collaborating with painter Julie Held.
Royal Literary Fund Fellowship
Polly is Fellow for year 2008-9 at Edinburgh University's Office of Lifelong Learning.
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Links Cove Park Artists Centre
Modern Poetry in Translation
London Review of Books
The Fielding Programme
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Take Me With You
Kiss
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PoemSpot VANISHING TWIN
by Sarah Jackson For years, I’ve hid
in a cracked hotel
tipping the moors:
I sleep days, among piles
and piles of laundry;
nights, I steal dreams wrap them up
in soft white towels
longing for you my duck egg girl
my vanishing twin.
Do you remember me? I still feel the ache
of your lidless space
your imprint on my skin. Sarah Jackson is a resident on
The Fielding Programme. She is
studying for a PhD at Sussex University
where she is working on a novel.
This poem was first published in Poetry South.
PoemSpot QUARTERED
by Jane McKie
Sahara. It has been raked and planted
in so many soils for so many years
that it hardly seems strange, does it?
But if all its words were said before, all
its landscapes mapped, why, then,
do I shiver when the Harmattan comes
like a wolf who hungers after my breath?
He blows atoms of me to his brothers
in a game of four winds and sand.
Jane McKie gained an MSC in Creative Writing from Edinburgh University and also has a diverse range of academic interests. She has formed her own publisher Knucker Press and her work has appeared in Granta's New Writing 15. She lives in Linlithgow. These poems were first published in her pamphlet Morocco Rococo (Cinnamon Press). Jane is a resident on The Fielding Programme.
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