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Caroline Bird

    Caroline Bird è una poetessa e drammaturga il cui lavoro intreccia magistralmente umorismo, malinconia e colpi di scena inaspettati. Le sue raccolte di poesie, spesso ispirate a fiabe e storie romantiche, sono celebrate per il loro gioco linguistico e le loro fresche intuizioni sull'adolescenza e la prima età adulta. Nel suo teatro, reinterpreta frequentemente narrazioni classiche, esplorando temi intramontabili con una sensibilità moderna verso l'assurdo e la critica sociale. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da vivacità, intensità e sorprendente profondità.

    In These Days of Prohibition
    Ambush at Still Lake
    Rookie
    Trouble Came to the Turnip
    The Air Year
    Red Ellen
    • 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.

      Red Ellen
    • 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.

      Trouble Came to the Turnip
    • A Selected Poems spanning six collections and twenty years, from childhood bewilderment to adult bewilderment through Bird's oxymoronic lens of 'jaunty trauma'.

      Rookie
    • 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.

      Ambush at Still Lake
    • In These Days of Prohibition

      • 64pagine
      • 3 ore di lettura

      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'.

      In These Days of Prohibition