About

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Writer & Poet

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

MAYA ANGELOU

Clare Saponia is a Berlin/ London/ Brighton-based writer, poet and coach. She is the author of three poetry collections: Federal Gods (Palewell Press 2022) The Oranges of Revolution (Smokestack Books 2015) and Copyrighting War and other Business Sins (Olympia Publishers 2011), and been published in a range of anthologies and journals including: Smokestack Lightning (Smokestack Books 2022), They want all our teeth to be theirs (Culture Matters 2021), The Cry of the Poor (Culture Matters, 2021) The Brown Envelope Book  (Caparison, 2021), Witches, Warriors, Workers (Culture Matters 2020), Kakania – An Anthology (Austrian Cultural Forum 2015), The Robin Hood Book – Verse versus Austerity (Caparison Books 2012), Emergency Verse – Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State (Caparison Books 2011).

Clare has performed at a variety of spoken-word and radio venues in the UK and abroad, including Keats’ House, Waterstones, The Whitechapel Gallery, Housmans Radical Booksellers, Centreprise, Borders Books and Lit Media Reviews Online Radio. She is currently working on her fourth collection, two fiction projects, and is in the process of creating poetry films in collaboration with other artists.

Through writing, Clare aims to move dialogue beyond the comfort zone and expand communications channels. She prefers to view words as invaluable wake-up calls – rather than weapons. Clare is passionate about topics relating to social equality, collective consciousness and emotional development, and is committed to integrating them in both work and practice. As Otto Rank put it, “what we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”

Teamwork and group projects have always played a massive part in Clare’s approach to writing and creativity, and not only on an energetic or socio-political level. Clare strongly believes that thoughts and ideas acquire multiple layers when people open themselves up to the influences of others. Clare also works as an artist, translator and teacher.

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