Clare Pollard

At age 19 Pollard published her first poetry collection, The Heavy-Petting Zoo. Her first poetry collection, the heavy-petting zoo, was published in 1998. Her second collection bedtime published in 2002 and her third collection look, clare, look published in 2005In 2000, Pollard won a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award. In 2004, her play The Weather was performed at the Royal Court Theatre In 2007, My Male Muse, a radio documentary was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In 2009, Pollard and James Byrne edited the Bloodaxe young poets showcase titled Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century.Pollard has been a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Essex University. In 2013, she was the judge for the inaugural international Hippocrates Prize for Young Poet

BOYS:

He explain that she is a feminist but she also loves boys. Basically she explain the confusing feelings she has about them because she don’t understand many of the actions and the judgement we have about the boys.

 Vocaroo Arnau: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1tgeC8tZOSJ

Vocabulary:

hanging: penjant   

relentness: impecable

glorifies: glorifica

banter: broma

dragged: arrosegat

THE TWO RAVENS

She uses the ravens to describe darkness, death, tragedy…

It talks about the death, and what we would do when we die.

She relationate this with the woman's who died for sexist violence. She does that simulating a dialogue of two ravens.

 Vocaroo Arnau: http://vocaroo.com/i/s15xubiXVfpZ

Vocabulary:

raven: corb              

dust: pols

mud: fang                

spolied: en mal estat

spread: propagació

glimpse: cop d’ull

PANTHER:

This frist part we have listened explains how their parents are almost attacked by a panther when his mother was embarrassed. In the rest of the poem she explain that if she had know that the society is like is now (all people thinking about himself, thieves…) she would have prefered to be caught by the panther.

Vocaroo Arnau: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1Ac6iePezuU

tongue: llengua

especting someone: estar embarassada d’algú

drizzle: plovisquejar     

nest: niu

pitiles: impacable         

thicket: matoll