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  • Trouble Came to the Turnip

    by Caroline Bird ...
    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. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Watering Can

    by Caroline Bird ...
    Packed with wry comedy, satire, and wordplay, this collection of poems celebrates life as an early 20-something. The extraordinary verve and compassion of the verse reveals the anxiety of new responsibilities and contains a vast array of imagery, including prophetic videos, a moon colonized by bullies, weeping scholars, laughing ducks, and silent weddings. Filled with exuberant energy and passion, ... Read more

    $17.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rookie

    Selected Poems

    by Caroline Bird ...
    A formidable collection from a singular voice in British poetry.Caroline Bird, Forward Prize winner and one of Carcanet's most popular poets, presents a selection of her best work from the past two decades. Starting with Looking through Letterboxes written when she was just fifteen, this collection showcases her startling instinct for metaphor and courageous exploration of complex subjects.Rookie ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ambush at Still Lake

    by Caroline Bird ...
    A Financial Times Poetry Book of the Year 2024.Caroline Bird's new poems show us the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness after the happy ending. This collection explores marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery, revealing a recurring dream: a world where mums impale themselves on pogo-sticks, serial killers rattle around in basements, and baby monitors are haunted by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Air Year

    by Caroline Bird ...
    The Air Year is a time of flight, transition, and suspension: the shrill air as you fall through love, before crash, comedown—commitment. The poet crosses challenging threshholds: fear of commitment, of motherhood, shame, and panic. 'I am proficient at beginnings,' Caroline Bird says. This book goes further and (with her characteristic energy and exuberance) risks the next level. People run on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Red Ellen

    by Caroline Bird ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'A working-class woman inside the walls of Westminster? If that is not espionage, I do not know what is.'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 save Jewish refugees in Nazi Germany; campaigning for Britain to aid the fight against Franco's ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dragonish

    by Emma Simon ...
    Series series The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets
    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 earth-bound heavenly host, London's dryads and a nineteenth-century French brothel. Infused with a warm humour, tinged with darkness, the poems tempt the reader to peep beneath the surface of things. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    by Caroline Bird ...
    Series series Oberon Plays for Young People
    An angry orphan escapes a grey town on the back of a hurricane. She lands in a mysterious country of tiny people and wicked witches, where the trees carry bazookas, the crows recite slam poetry, and a mouse can blow your head off.In just one day, this little girl revolutionizes an entire nation. She brings freedom, and colour. Her name is DOROTHY. ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Hat-Stand Union

    by Caroline Bird ...
    Extending the vigorous world she created in her previous collections, Caroline Bird's The Hat-Stand Union is a book about isolated people. Some are isolated within a couple, some in a crowd, some have actively chosen to retreat, and others are frantically trying to join forces with something, anything: a lover, a religion, a country, a cause. The poems contain more shadows now, more tones of voice ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Iphigenia Quartet

    by Caroline Bird, Lulu Raczka, Chris Thorpe, Ms Suhayla El-Bushra ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter, Clytemnestra must try to stop him, Iphigenia must accept her fate, the Chorus must watch.Ships lie dormant in harbours, and thousands of troops sit on the shore, growing restless and unruly. Helen is gone, and pursuit of her has been stalled by windless seas. To raise the winds to send his fleet to Troy, Agamemnon is commanded by the gods to sacrifice his ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Chamber Piece

    by Caroline Bird ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    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 weeping in the witness gallery, the journalist clicks her pen and the prison governor gives the thumbs up. Rapist murderer Richard Sanger is strapped to the gurney. Chamber Piece depicts a modern, ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse

    by Caroline Bird ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'And what happens when the pendulum swings too far? We push back.'In the 1970s, one enigmatic old lady wielded extraordinary influence, fighting against what she believed was the UK's moral decline. Armed with only a typewriter, this seemingly harmless grandmother took on the BBC and the 'godless media' in a culture war that divided the nation.Inspired by real events, Caroline Bird's wickedly ... Read more

    $18.49 USD