ARGONAUT BOOKS

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 all whilst in conversation with female poets through the ages. Reviews Pollard's is a gritty reality, but one grounded with a culturally aware, geographically various, and historically wide-ranging sensibility: there are versions of creation myths, fairy tales, mystic poems, and laments for lost contemporaries… clear-eyed, intelligent question...Read More