Incarnation by Clare Pollard Stack ‘A perfectly pitched quest for

‘A perfectly pitched quest for lost innocence’ John Burnside

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Derek Slade contributed substantially to composing the notes on sources and earlier appearances of the works gathered here

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To contain these contradictory impulses and

Incarnation by Clare Pollard Stack ‘A perfectly pitched quest forThe 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