A play that tells the remarkable true story of an inspiring and brilliant woman: Ellen Wilkinson, who was a campaigning Labour MP in the 1930s and 40s.
Caroline Bird Books
Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright whose work masterfully intertwines humor, melancholy, and unexpected twists. Her poetry collections, often inspired by fairy tales and romance, are celebrated for their linguistic playfulness and fresh insights into adolescence and early adulthood. In her drama, she frequently reinterprets classic narratives, exploring timeless themes with a modern sensibility for the absurd and social commentary. Her writing is characterized by its verve, poignancy, and surprising depth.
Chamber Piece
- 104 pages
- 4 hours of reading
A pitch black comedy from award-winning poet and playwright Caroline Bird. The Thick of It meets The Shawshank Redemption.
The Air Year
- 64 pages
- 3 hours of reading
The sixth collection from award-winning poet and dramatist Caroline Bird.
Watering Can
- 82 pages
- 3 hours of reading
Celebrates life as an early twenty-something. This book presents a collection of poems of Caroline Bird.
The Iphigenia Quartet
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
The Iphigenia Quartet sees four of the UK's most exciting and radical playwrights - Caroline Bird, Suhayla El Bushra, Lulu Raczka, and Chris Thorpe - create explosive responses to Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides.
There's no decent way to say an indecent thing An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once queen, watches as her remaining family are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. First performed in 415BC, the play focuses on the human cost of war and the impact of loss. This new Student Edition of The Women of Troy includes a commentary and notes by Emma Cole, which looks at the Trojan War as represented in Greek literature and myth; the context in which Euripides was writing and within which the play was first performed; how it would have been originally staged and dramaturgical challenges met; as well as recent performance history of the play, including Katie Mitchell's iconic 2007 production at the National Theatre. Euripides' great anti-war play is published here in Don Taylor's classic translation.
Hat-Stand Union
- 93 pages
- 4 hours of reading
The fourth collection by an arresting, award-winning young talent.
Trouble Came to the Turnip
- 106 pages
- 4 hours of reading
Ferociously vital, savagely humorous, and self-mocking, this poetry collection focuses on a world that is inhabited by failed and successful relationships during the dizzying crisis of early adulthood, offering insight into the pleasures and pains of growing up.
A Selected Poems spanning six collections and twenty years, from childhood bewilderment to adult bewilderment through Bird's oxymoronic lens of 'jaunty trauma'.
Caroline Bird's new collection charts marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery: the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness, after the happy ending.
