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  • Watering Can

    de 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, ... Leer más

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  • Trouble Came to the Turnip

    de 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. ... Leer más

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  • The Hat-Stand Union

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Rookie

    Selected Poems

    de Caroline Bird ...
    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 her witness, set her apart: a poem is a risk, and it has to be a risk worth taking for the poet and for the reader. Starting with Looking through Letterboxes in 2002 when she was fifteen years old, she has ... Leer más

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  • Ambush at Still Lake

    de 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 is a collection about marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery in which a recurring dream is playing out: a world where mums impale themselves on pogo-sticks, serial killers rattle around in basements, baby monitors are ... Leer más

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  • Something New

    Alternative Poems for Alternative Weddings

    de Caroline Bird ...
    Until recently, a wedding was no place for reinvention: everything from the location to the outfits to the language of the ceremony was decided by our particular cultures, religions and social expectations of gender and domestic roles; and of course, many of us were unable to get married at all. Now gay marriage is legal in Britain; heterosexual couples can have civil partnerships; we can get ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Air Year

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Red Ellen

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Chamber Piece

    de 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, ... Leer más

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  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Chamber Piece

    de Caroline Bird ...
    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, ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD