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Journalism and Essays

Clare has written for many publications, including The Guardian, The Independent, The TES, Critical Quarterly, Booktrust, Books for Keeps, London Magazine, The Idler, Magma, Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Dark Horse, Building Design and The Film 4 Website.  Essays include:

‘Cathay 100′, on Ezra Pound and Translation, at the RLF website.

‘Ovid the Feminist’ in The Idler, online edition

‘Dorothy Parker and the Small Hours’ in The Dark Horse, issue 29

‘Note on Poetry and Thought’ in In Their Own Words, ed. Helen Ivory and George Szirtes (Salt, 2012)

‘Frederick Seidel and the Impossibility of Goodness’ in The Dark Horse, issue 28

‘Free Verse: A Defense of the Ballad’ in The Idler 42.

‘Her Kind: Anne Sexton, the Cold War and the Idea of the Housewife’ in Critical Quarterly, vol 48 issue 3.

‘Poets Reading Poets: On John Donne’s ‘The Good-Morrow’ at Writer’s Hub

‘The Female Poet and the Male Muse’ in Magma 37.

‘Getting Poetry to Confess’ in Magma 21.