{"podcast":{"title":"The Poems We Made Along The Way","slug":"the-poems-we-made-along-the-way-7032462","podcast_index_feed_id":7032462,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/66e5c7f558d4122cd96d65c9","website_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/the-poems-we-made-along-the-way","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/66e5c7f558d4122cd96d65c9/1727310179671-3804eada-dbb8-41f1-811a-0d2d9925f4a9.jpeg","author":"Gregory Kearns","episode_count":55,"summary":"The Poems We Made Along The Way is a show where Gregory Kearns interviews a different poet each episode. These conversations explore community, friendship and poetry. How poems can be friends to us? How we need community to make us better poets? And what we can do to best build those communities? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-15T10:18:09.512402+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-poems-we-made-along-the-way-7032462"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 32: Clare Pollard - \"The poem itself is a haunted house\"","slug":"episode-32-clare-pollard-the-poem-itself-is-a-haunted-house","published_at":"2025-11-03T05:38:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-poems-we-made-along-the-way-7032462/episode-32-clare-pollard-the-poem-itself-is-a-haunted-house","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-poems-we-made-along-the-way-7032462","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-poems-we-made-along-the-way/episodes/6907895d3906f8011a505a41","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66e5c7f558d4122cd96d65c9/e/6907895d3906f8011a505a41/media.mp3","summary":"On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Clare Pollard about breaking your own rules, poems being like haunted houses, and the word poetess. Clare Pollard is a poet, novelist, children’s author, translator non-fiction writer and editor. She wrote her first poetry collection The Heavy-Petting Zoo (published by Bloodaxe) was written while she was still in school. Her other books include The Modern Fairies, The Untameables, Delphi and her most recent collection of poetry The Lives of the Female Poets is published by Bloodaxe.  Links to writing Lives of the Female Poets: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/lives-of-the-female-poets  Incarnation: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/incarnation-1134 Look, Clare ! Look!: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/look-clare-look--817 Delphi: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/447396/delphi-by-pollard-clare/9780241995266  You can also use our affiliate link for Bookshop to find most of the books by most of the guests from the show. They are organised into lists for each series. If you use this link we get a fraction of the money you spend: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/series-five-the-poems-we-made-along-the-way      We’d also recommend enquiring with your local bookshops or libraries as well. Clare's Poetry Circle Substack: https://clarespoetrycircle.substack.com/ Things I watched in the lead up to this interview Launch reading by Emilie Jenlinek, Clare Pollard and Jessica Traynor (Bloodaxe): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He4JaXNJzdw Clare Pollard in conversation with Helen Eastman (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUqZU6JNJo0&t=205s Poetry as a way to gain control | A Drink with Clare…","meta_description":"On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Clare Pollard about breaking your own rules, poems being like haunted house…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4244,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-poems-we-made-along-the-way-7032462/episodes/episode-32-clare-pollard-the-poem-itself-is-a-haunted-house/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-poems-we-made-along-the-way-7032462/episode-32-clare-pollard-the-poem-itself-is-a-haunted-house.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}