Incarnation

by Clare Pollard

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780373376
• ISBN13: 9781780373379
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.3"