Kate Clanchy has been a qualified teacher for 35 years. Picador published her first volume of poetry 21 years ago. But publisher and author have now parted company “by mutual agreement” (although it sounds more like “my partner divorced me and I agreed”).
The reason for such a move centres on the controversy about her latest book, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, in which she described her pupils in ways that one author said were “riddled with racist and ableist tropes”, such as “chocolate-coloured skin” and “almond-shaped eyes”.
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