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Clare Pollard



Clare Pollard has published five collections of poetry. Her poem ‘Pollen’ was nominated for the Forward Prize. Her play The Weather premiered at the Royal Court Theatre and her documentary for radio, 'My Male Muse', was a Radio 4 Pick of the year. She has been involved in numerous translation projects, including translating Ovid’s Heroines, which she toured as a one-woman show. She has also written a non-fiction title - Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children’s Picture Books - and an adult novel, Delphi. The Untameables is her first children’s book.


 


Genres: Historical
 
New and upcoming books
June 2026

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The Othernauts
 
Novels
   Delphi (2022)
   The Untameables (2024)
   The Modern Fairies (2024)
   The Othernauts (2026)
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Award nominations
2025 Encore Award (nominee) : The Modern Fairies
2025 Branford Boase Award (longlist) : The Untameables


Clare Pollard recommends
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Spoiled Milk (2026)
Avery Curran
"Something wicked oozes through Briarley School for girls. Has the slave trade, spiritualism or sapphic desire unleashed it? Whichever way it's slick and rotten fun. Get ready for your new literary crush."
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Ordinary Time (2024)
Cathy Rentzenbrink
"Witty, tender, heartrending. Ordinary Time is about the huge feelings that howl beneath the surface of the everyday. No one has written this astutely about the inner lives of middle-aged women since Barbara Pym."
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The Safekeep (2024)
Yael van der Wouden
"This is a stealthy, simmering novel about complicity and the lies we live by."

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