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.
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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.
- 2024
- 2022
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.
- 2022
A Selected Poems spanning six collections and twenty years, from childhood bewilderment to adult bewilderment through Bird's oxymoronic lens of 'jaunty trauma'.
- 2020
The Air Year
- 64 pages
- 3 hours of reading
The sixth collection from award-winning poet and dramatist Caroline Bird.
- 2017
In These Days of Prohibition
- 64 pages
- 3 hours of reading
In These Days of Prohibition is Caroline Bird's fifth Carcanet collection. As always, she is a poet of dark hilarity and telling social comment. Shifting between poetic and vulgar registers, the surreal imagery of her early work is re-deployed to venture into the badlands of the human psyche. Her poems hold their subjects in an unflinching grip, addressing faces behind the veneer, asking what it is that keeps us alive. These days of prohibition are days of intoxication and inebriation, rehab in a desert and adultery for atheists, until finally Bird edges us out of danger, 'revving on a wish'.
- 2006
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.
