Polly Clark
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My contributor’s copy of Magma Poetry issue 51 arrived in the post today. It’s my Magma debut, with one new poem, “Fallen Icons of the Angel Barbie”, and I’m rather stunned to be named on the front cover alongside Selima Hill, Gillian Clarke, Penelope Shuttle and Pascale Petit. Rob A Mackenzie and Polly Clark also
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The first print review of The Ambulance Box is in! It’s part of a piece in Magma 44, where Rosie Shepperd reviews it alongside Paula Meehan’s Painting Rain (Carcanet) and River Wolton’s The Purpose of Your Visit (Smith/Doorstop Books). The review is thorough and extremely positive. Here’s a headline quote: delights readers with a dance
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Out last night to Polly Clark‘s reading at Edinburgh Uni’s Office of Lifelong Learning, where she’s the Royal Literary Funding writer in residence. Polly was reading along with three OLL students. Debbie Cannon, who read at last month’s Shore Poets, was the only poet of the three. She kicked off with a reduced version of
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The visit to Orkney with the Shore Poets exchange in October is beginning to shape up. It looks like it will involve one reading–on Saturday 13th along with Christine De Luca and local writers in the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness–and at least one school visit the previous day. There might be other visits to schools
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Here’s the Shore Poets programme from September 2007 to June 2008 (guest poets in bold, Shore poets in italics and new poets in plain text). Don’t forget our special Orkney event on Sunday 29th July. 200730th SeptPolly Clark, Ian McDonough and Gilly Garnett 28th OctGillian Allnutt, Christine De Luca and James W Wood 25th NovDavid
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