Look, Clare! Look!

by Pollard, Clare

• ISBN13: 9781852247096
• ISBN10: 1852247096
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-15
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

When Clare Pollard set off on a six-month world trip, she wanted to write a long poem which engaged with what she saw and felt during her travels. On her return, she discovered that her father was seriously ill, and his funeral was held on New Year's Eve.
Clare Pollard's third collection is a book about journeys and home. She looks closely at both global issues and the blossom in her yard. Beginning as a meditation on western guilt against the backdrop of SARS and the Iraq War, it ends by looking at our closest relationships, in poems that deal with a pregnancy scare and her engagement, as well as illness and loss.

Table of Contents

The Journey
The Journey	p. 13
Mission Beach	p. 28
The World and I
To Hua Shan	p. 30
To a Cambodian Sky	p. 31
To Mangos	p. 32
To a Bonobo	p. 33
To a Dartmoor Pony	p. 34
To Depression	p. 35
To Christchurch	p. 36
To a Pigeon	p. 37
To Absinthe	p. 38
To a London Plane Tree	p. 40
Home
The Beginning of the End	p. 42
The Chain	p. 44
The Bad News	p. 46
Notes to Self	p. 47
The Cancer-Dream	p. 50
October	p. 51
Blossom in November	p. 53
For My Fiance	p. 54
For the Other Ones	p. 55
For My Future Daughter	p. 56
Cordelia at the Service Stop	p. 58
Metamorphoses	p. 59
My Father and the Snow	p. 60
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