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Clare Eve Pollard FRSL (born 1978, England) is a British writer (poet, novelist and playwright), literary translator and (prize jury) critic. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2024.
In 2009, Pollard and James Byrne edited the Bloodaxe young poets showcase titled Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century.Crown S. Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century. The Guardian Accessed 20 September 2015. Pollard has been a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Essex University. British Council for Literature – Clare Pollard Contemporarywriters.com Accessed 20 September 2015. In 2013, she was the judge for the inaugural international Hippocrates Prize for Young Poets, and she has since judged the Poetry Book Society Next Generation list, Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize, Manchester International Poetry Prize, the Northern Writer's Awards and the T. S. Eliot Prize.
From 2017 to 2022 she was the editor of Modern Poetry in Translation. Thereafter, she began to work as artistic director of the Winchester Poetry Festival. In 2022, her poem Pollen was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2022. In that same year, she published her debut novel, Delphi, with Fig Tree in the UK, with Avid Reader in the USA, and Aufbau Verlag in Germany. The novel's plot centres on social satire concerning oracles, tarot cards and London family life during the 2020 Covid lockdown, and the corresponding shift of everyday life towards the internet; the protagonist of the novel is a struggling classics professor, wife and mother facing a failing marriage, attempting to care for her ten-year-old son whilst holding her family together "against all odds".
Pollard's debut children's book, The Untameables, a radical retelling of Arthurian myth and legend, was published in 2024 by the Emma Press.
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