{"product_id":"lives-of-the-female-poets","title":"Lives Of The Female Poets By Pollard, Clare","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClare Pollard thumbs her nose at Dr Johnson’s all-male \u003ci\u003eLives of the Poets\u003c\/i\u003e in chronicling her own life and theirs in her \u003ci\u003eLives of the Female Poets\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese portraits and self portraits offer glimpses into the poet’s own everyday life – from nit-combing and laundry to pollen counts and cocktails, watching school plays to shopping on Rye Lane – all whilst in conversation with female poets through the ages. \u003cspan\u003ePlaying with forms from the version to the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eglosa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, these are poems that remix, adapt and channel figures from Enheduanna, the first recorded poet, through to Wanda Coleman. Probing the idea of the ‘Poetess’ over time, there are also poems about writers’ lives – sonnets for Anne Locke, who wrote the first English sonnet sequence; a sestina for Elizabeth Bishop; a series of prose poems about Emily Brontë; and a look at the tragic life of L.E.L. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether imagining a ‘three-martini afternoon’ at the Ritz with Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, or exploring the ways women writers have been erased from the canon in the book’s long, closing poem, Clare Pollard’s playful sixth collection celebrates and commemorates all those female poets who have come before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57584585343358,"sku":"NW9781780377476","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781780377476.jpg?v=1783314559","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/lives-of-the-female-poets","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}