Clare Pollard
@poetclare.bsky.social
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
🏺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
· Oct 13
COVER REVEAL for The Othernauts!!! Thankyou to illustrator Macha Yao for bringing Phoebe, Perry, Cora and the Argo to life! Can’t wait to take you on this adventure 🌊🏛️🏺🐍♟️⚡️🔮⚓️🐉 @bonnierbooks.bsky.social
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Daily Mail owner’s wife donates £50,000 to Reform UK
Nothing to see here...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/dai...
Nothing to see here...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/dai...
Daily Mail owner's wife donates £50,000 to Reform UK
The wife of the owner of the Daily Mail made a £50,000 donation to Reform UK earlier this year.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Daily Mail owner’s wife donates £50,000 to Reform UK
Nothing to see here...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/dai...
Nothing to see here...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/dai...
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Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.
December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.
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Reform UK Ltd. The People’s Party. The party that speaks to the ‘regular man in the street’. Here’s September’s image from the new CWS/John Heartfield calendar, featuring those ‘regular man in the street’ billionaire Reform donors.
See link in pinned post.
See link in pinned post.
December 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Reform UK Ltd. The People’s Party. The party that speaks to the ‘regular man in the street’. Here’s September’s image from the new CWS/John Heartfield calendar, featuring those ‘regular man in the street’ billionaire Reform donors.
See link in pinned post.
See link in pinned post.
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Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
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Time to find out if Americans ever believed in that high minded Ken Burns narrative voice flag folding shit
To the extent that we have a civic religion, this is actual blasphemy, and we need a Jesus fucking up the moneylenders plying their wares in our temples of democracy.
WTAF.
December 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Time to find out if Americans ever believed in that high minded Ken Burns narrative voice flag folding shit
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www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de... << how fantastic to see. Big up Peepal!
Illustrating the ‘postcolonial experience’: 40 years of Peepal Tree Press
As the publisher celebrates an important milestone, we chart its journey from an ‘expensive hobby’ to an international household name
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de... << how fantastic to see. Big up Peepal!
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Trump is trying to set a world record today for the most white people gathered around a single desk
December 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Trump is trying to set a world record today for the most white people gathered around a single desk
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Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
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You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement
Two brothers killed in Israeli drone strike on Gaza
Fadi Abu Assi, 11, and Goma Abu Assi, eight, were gathering firewood at the time, their uncle said.
news.sky.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement
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Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Sign the Petition
Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK
c.org
December 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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And if you're looking for new children's books,
@tygertale.bsky.social has just updated his crowd-sourced list of the Best Children's Books of the 21st Century. It's a wonderful list that shows this really is a golden age - just have a look!
tygertale.com/2025/11/28/t...
@tygertale.bsky.social has just updated his crowd-sourced list of the Best Children's Books of the 21st Century. It's a wonderful list that shows this really is a golden age - just have a look!
tygertale.com/2025/11/28/t...
The 100 Best Children’s Books of the 21st Century
In September the Guardian published the 100 books of the 21st Century. It contained only five children’s books, two of which were published in the year 2000 – wrong century – and featur…
tygertale.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
And if you're looking for new children's books,
@tygertale.bsky.social has just updated his crowd-sourced list of the Best Children's Books of the 21st Century. It's a wonderful list that shows this really is a golden age - just have a look!
tygertale.com/2025/11/28/t...
@tygertale.bsky.social has just updated his crowd-sourced list of the Best Children's Books of the 21st Century. It's a wonderful list that shows this really is a golden age - just have a look!
tygertale.com/2025/11/28/t...
This Saturday at Cafe Oto: vegan food, DJ and poetry! Come through East London
📚Act Announcement📚
Clare Pollard is joining us this winter for our Mushaira on the 6th of December at the iconic Cafe OTO! Join us: tr.ee/8eIvxi3L1W
Clare Pollard is joining us this winter for our Mushaira on the 6th of December at the iconic Cafe OTO! Join us: tr.ee/8eIvxi3L1W
December 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This Saturday at Cafe Oto: vegan food, DJ and poetry! Come through East London
What the what now?
Kristi Noem: "Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that."
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
What the what now?
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Hundreds of millions. Wow, that's a lot. That's more than have died in every single war combined in the entire world since 1900.
December 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Hundreds of millions. Wow, that's a lot. That's more than have died in every single war combined in the entire world since 1900.
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📚Act Announcement📚
Clare Pollard is joining us this winter for our Mushaira on the 6th of December at the iconic Cafe OTO! Join us: tr.ee/8eIvxi3L1W
Clare Pollard is joining us this winter for our Mushaira on the 6th of December at the iconic Cafe OTO! Join us: tr.ee/8eIvxi3L1W
December 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
📚Act Announcement📚
Clare Pollard is joining us this winter for our Mushaira on the 6th of December at the iconic Cafe OTO! Join us: tr.ee/8eIvxi3L1W
Clare Pollard is joining us this winter for our Mushaira on the 6th of December at the iconic Cafe OTO! Join us: tr.ee/8eIvxi3L1W
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Haven't read 'Aubade' in a few years and just did so on the link below. Astonishing how many of its phrases have entered my own way of thinking and expressing myself. And if there's a more perfect, devastating, beautiful ending to a poem, I need to know.
Philip Larkin started writing ‘Aubade’ in 1974, & finished it in 1977 after his mother’s death. It was published in the TLS on 23rd December, apparently ruining a number of people’s Christmases. Larkin, terrified of death all his life, died on this day 1985.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/...
Aubade
Not in remorse —The good not done, the love not given, time Torn off unused—nor wretchedly because An only life can take so long to climb Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never; But at the total...
www.poetryfoundation.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Haven't read 'Aubade' in a few years and just did so on the link below. Astonishing how many of its phrases have entered my own way of thinking and expressing myself. And if there's a more perfect, devastating, beautiful ending to a poem, I need to know.
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I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
One of my last gigs of the year this Saturday and what a lineup 👀 - @aanaxagorou.bsky.social just added, plus vegan food and a DJ. Come through East London!
🎁SURPRISE Act Announcement🎁
Our surprise guest Anthony Anaxagorou is joining us this SATURDAY for Mushaira at the iconic Cafe OTO!
Join us: tr.ee/8eIvxi3L1W
Our surprise guest Anthony Anaxagorou is joining us this SATURDAY for Mushaira at the iconic Cafe OTO!
Join us: tr.ee/8eIvxi3L1W
December 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
One of my last gigs of the year this Saturday and what a lineup 👀 - @aanaxagorou.bsky.social just added, plus vegan food and a DJ. Come through East London!
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Well this is going to be the great kind of chaotic good! Don't miss Sophia Terazawa, Kazim Ali (virtual), Samuel Fisher, Sunny Singh, Clare Pollard & Anthony Anaxagorou reading for the season…
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Well this is going to be the great kind of chaotic good! Don't miss Sophia Terazawa, Kazim Ali (virtual), Samuel Fisher, Sunny Singh, Clare Pollard & Anthony Anaxagorou reading for the season…
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...
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For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
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I kind of like the idea that Mr. Beast *is* the Antichrist, and he's been making it increasingly on the nose because he finds it impossible to get anyone to notice him
November 30, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I kind of like the idea that Mr. Beast *is* the Antichrist, and he's been making it increasingly on the nose because he finds it impossible to get anyone to notice him
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Meet the Forgotten Female Artist Behind the World’s Most Popular Tarot Deck (1909)
www.openculture.com/2025/10/meet...
#art
www.openculture.com/2025/10/meet...
#art
November 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Meet the Forgotten Female Artist Behind the World’s Most Popular Tarot Deck (1909)
www.openculture.com/2025/10/meet...
#art
www.openculture.com/2025/10/meet...
#art
Took the kids to see the Hercules musical tonight
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Took the kids to see the Hercules musical tonight