Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020 Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2020 Shortlisted for The Polari Book Prize 2021 Caroline Bird's new poems show us the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness after the happy ending. This is a c...

Caroline Bird is one of Carcanet's most popular poets. Her startling instinct for metaphor, the courage of her choice of subjects and the integrity of her witness, set her apart: a poem is a risk, and it has to be a risk worth taking for the poet and...

The sixth collection from award-winning poet and dramatist Caroline Bird.

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 v...

Playful in earnest, Caroline Bird in her fourth book of poems turns familiar stories on their heads. Adrift in a surreal world of the everyday, Bird's protagonists declaim Chekhov in supermarkets, purchase mail-order tears, sing love-songs to hat-sta...

Caroline Bird's two earlier collections were acclaimed for their exuberant energy, surreal imagination and passion – "a bit of a Howl for a new generation", wrote the "Hudson Review". "Watering Can" celebrates life as an early twenty-something. The p...

"Following Looking Through Letterboxes", her first collection (2002), Caroline Bird was acclaimed as a vivid and precocious new talent. "Trouble Came to the Turnip" confirms her originality as she strikes out again in new directions, taking nothing f...

Caroline Bird first appears to be a traditional storyteller. But the stories she tells (or conceals) are suspended in a language charged with metaphor, and most of them are built upon foundations which are strangely familiar: fairy tale, fantasy and...