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Clare Pollard

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Novelist. Poet. Reader. 🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS, etc. 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS coming 2026 Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · Aug 14

Some big news! I’m thrilled THE OTHERNAUTS is coming out next year, my retelling of the quest for the Golden Fleece that now features a sarcastic 11yo oracle, a boy who can metamorphose and a small tone-deaf siren. Can’t wait to introduce you to Phoebe, Perry and Cora.
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Aug 13

Piccadilly Press has acquired The Othernauts, a "comedic new twist" on the classic Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts for middle-grade readers by Clare Pollard, illustrated by Macha Yao 👇 #BookSky

Piccadilly Press snaps up 'brilliantly original' middle-grade retelling of Jason and the Argonauts

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 1h

Today is Bookshop Day, a day to celebrate ALL bookshops on our high streets.

Bookshops are an integral part of an author's livelihood, and we celebrate all the talented booksellers who share their guidance and expertise.

Visit your local bookshop today and show them your support.

#bookshopday

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 22h

(Obviously I would love to see children’s authors and illustrators emerging from more diverse backgrounds but a) they shouldn’t be pressured to then ‘represent’ their communities if they want to write about capybaras or dragons and b) we need to tackle how badly paid writing and drawing is first)

Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 22h

Ezra Jack Keats was white though, and according to the last para of this would therefore be considered ‘superficial’ as he was not an ‘own voice’ writer/illustrator. not sure this kind of ‘stay in your lane’ rhetoric is helping representation

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 1d

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses, independent publishers urge in a recent open letter 👇 #BookSky

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

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Roland Allen, author of 'The Notebook: a History' @zibaldoni.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi made me do it.

Version of the Simpsons 'bus driver taps the sign' meme in which the tapped text reads 'Your reminder that the UK book industry is worth over £7bn, more than four times the steel industry (1.7bn) and six times the fishing industry (£1.1bn) so maybe English degrees do have a point after all.'

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

lol this is crazy i mean this guys the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 1d

Starts tonight. Let’s go! See you at Diane Seuss, Luke Kennard and Mona Arshi at 8.30pm? (Also live-streamed if you’d like to watch with wine and takeout) #winchesterpoetry www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on

What's on - Winchester Poetry Festival events in 2025

Details of our forthcoming events and collaborations. Winchester Poetry Festival runs 2-12th October

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 2d

Never stop saying this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 1d

OK this is everything.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

doomscroll break

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 2d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 1d

‘Hell and heaven are both on Earth, and they are here now’

The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 1d

László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature!

Read his interview with Hari Kunzru in The Yale Reviewon apocalypse, art, and the urgency of the present—and his short story “An Angel Passed Above Us,” also published in TYR.

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László Krasznahorkai on hope, apocalypse, and his new short story

Hari Kunzru interviews the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 2d

Caryl Churchill is one of my literary heroines. This 5 min play by her about cultural sponsorship is absolutely incredible do watch, RT etc. @cultureunstained.bsky.social @fossilfreebooks.org cultureunstained.org/tickets-are-...

TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE

In October 2025, we launched a short film, Tickets are Now on Sale, based on a play by Caryl Churchill and starring Siobhán McSweeney and Samuel West. Playwrights, actors and theatre workers are ur…

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 3d

Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems.

Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago.

SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 7d

This is what the Stasi did in East Germany - it's crazy how fast and how unopposed the US is falling into this

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Andrea!!

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 2d

cutting in all the times trump used the same words makes this, weirdly, one of the most effective ads I've seen about Epstein

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 3d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

this made me actually laugh out actual loud

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 2d

I honestly can’t bring myself to read this but I do think it’s very important for people in the US to remember that this is happening right now because of our government.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 2d

I understand that Kemi Badenoch hates people like me and wants to stop more of us being formed, but even on conservative terms she’s a fool. If she’d read some Burke she might be skeptical that a nation can be held together with business studies and comp sci

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 3d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social · 3d

If you loved @poetclare.bsky.social wonderful ‘The Untameables’ you’ll be blown away by ‘The Othernauts’ a rollicking ride through Greek mythology!
Coming next year from Piccadilly Press and sure to be a Herculean hit!!
#kidlituk #ukkidlit

The Untameables by Clare Pollard (The Emma Press) & a proof copy of The Othernauts by the same author.

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 3d

i like this Saul Bellow quote: “Rejections teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, ‘To hell with you’“

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection

As a writer, I have been rejected thousands of times, and it initially led to shock, denial and anger. Then I accepted it. Here’s what you can gain from doing so too

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