‘Whitely’: Race and Lyric Subjectivity in Clare Pollard’s Poetry
(2020)
Journal Article
Chingonyi, K. (2020). ‘Whitely’: Race and Lyric Subjectivity in Clare Pollard’s Poetry. Wasafiri, 35(3), 43-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2020.1760484
This essay analyses three poems from the oeuvre of contemporary English poet Clare Pollard: ‘The Heavy-Petting Zoo’, ‘The Skulls of Dalston’ and ‘Thinking of England’. It argues that while Pollard's poetry presents jarring, discomfiting depictions of... Read More about ‘Whitely’: Race and Lyric Subjectivity in Clare Pollard’s Poetry.