Incarnation by Clare Pollard Stack journeying

journeying

'The Explosion'

but she counters this with a plea to challenge the forces of greed which have conspired to divide us

judged by Ian Duhig and Mimi Khalvati

To contain these contradictory impulses and

Incarnation by Clare Pollard Stack journeyingThe poems in Clare Pollards new 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 whales belly, the Moses basket in the rushes. There are poems