Caroline Bird is an award-winning poet and the author of the collections Looking Through Letterboxes, Trouble Came to the Turnip, and Watering Can. She is the recipient of the Eric Gregory Award and was short-listed for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and twice for the Dylan Thomas Prize. She was one of the five official poets at London Olympics 2012 and her poem, "The Fun Palace" is erected on the Olympic Site outside the main stadium.
Description
1 MYSTERY TEARS Sealing Wax Username: specialgirl2345 Mothers Snow Hotel Unacceptable Language Mystery Tears Method Acting The Dry Well A Dialogue between Artist and Muse Hey Las Vegas Genesis 9 Possible Reasons for Throwing a Cat into a Wheelie Bin Day Room Faith Dolores There Once Was a Boy Named Bosh Thoughts inside a Head inside a Kennel inside a Church The Only People in Paradise Fantasy Role-Play Empty Nest Spat How the Wild Horse Stopped Me The Island Woman of Coma Dawn 2 THE TRUTH ABOUT CAMELOT Prologue I. A Confident Local Youth II. Some Last Words III. Urchin Who Is Stalking Guinevere's Scullery Maid IV. Camelot Estate Agent V. Exiled Journalist Disguised as Shrub VI. Arthur's Crab-Boy Vision Faces Scalpel Practicalities VII. Crab Quotes VIII. You IX. Raving King Speech X. Lancelot's Poetry Reading in Smoky Bar XI. Arthur, Arthur, Arthur... XII. A Disgruntled Knight 3 SEA BED Damage This Was All About Me 2:19 to Whitstable Break-up Party Two Cents Run Sea Bed Public Detectives Facts To Whom It May Concern Screening The Promises Say When Kissing What Shall We Do With Your Subconscious? Limerence Medicine Izzy Conqueror Atheism I'm Sorry This Poem Is So Painful The Stock Exchange The Last House The Fun Palace Marriage of Equals Corine
Reviews
'Bird is irrepressible; she simply explodes with poetry. The work erupts, spring-loaded, funny, sad, deadly - you don't know if a bullet will come out of the barrel or a flag with the word BANG on it.' --Simon Armitage 'Caroline Bird has always written wise, bitterly funny and intellectually bracing poems. What has developed over the course of four collections is a voice heartbreaking in vision while simultaneously consoling in its constant and inspired invention.' --Luke Kennard 'A carnival of characters spills out of these poems, chased by paparazzi, doing somersaults and cartwheels with language... Caroline Bird puts us on the inside looking deeper in, under the glittering skin to the place where laughter begins, where mothers are children, where people feel pain and speak in tongues, where tongues are knives and "Someone still has to stay here and die".' --Imtiaz Dharker