Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her first collection of poems, Looking Through Letterboxes, was published when she was fifteen. She was shortlisted for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2001 and won an Eric Gregory Award in 2002. In 2008 and 2010 she was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and in 2012 was one of five official poets of the London Olympics.
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Caroline Bird: Chamber Piece
In this pitch-black comedy, fatal chemicals combine with ruthless ambition, biscuits, bureaucracy and moral ambiguity. Set in the near future, Britain has reinstated the death penalty. Relatives are …
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Caroline (Author) Bird: Chamber Piece
In this pitch-black comedy, fatal chemicals combine with ruthless ambition, biscuits, bureaucracy and moral ambiguity. Set in the near future, Britain has reinstated the death penalty. Relatives are …
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Caroline Bird: In These Days of Prohibition
Shortlisted for the 2017 Ted Hughes Award.Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize.In These Days of Prohibition is Caroline Bird's fifth Carcanet collection. As always, she is a poet of dark hi …
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Caroline Bird: The Hat-Stand Union
Playful in earnest, Caroline Bird in her fourth book of poems turns familiar stories on their heads. Bird’s protagonists declaim Chekhov in supermarkets, purchase mail-order tears, sing love-songs to …
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Caroline Bird: Watering Can
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 cele …
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Caroline Bird: Trouble Came to the Turnip
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 strike …
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Euripides Euripides: Trojan Women
A modern-day version of Euripides’ anti-war play, The Trojan Women has been rewritten and is set in a mother-and-baby unit of a prison. The war is over. Beyond the prison walls, Troy and its people b …
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Caroline Bird: The Air Year
Shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2021Winner of the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2020A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (February 2020)A Telegra …
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Caroline Bird: Rookie
Longlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2023 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 h …
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Caroline Bird: Red Ellen (NHB Modern Plays)
Forever on the right side of history, but on the wrong side of life, Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson is caught between revolutionary and parliamentary politics as she fights for a better world. Battling to …
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Emma Simon: Dragonish
Loss, love and various severed body parts are scattered throughout Dragonish. The poems are rooted in family, friends and home while also reaching into other worlds: the circus of possibilities, an e …
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Caroline Bird: Ambush at Still Lake
Caroline Bird's new poems show us the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness after the happy ending. This is a collection about marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery in …
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