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Chamber Piece

by Caroline Bird

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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, British execution. How would it look? How would we feel? And what could possibly go wrong?
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Book Details

ISBN:
9781783190706
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
102
Authors:
Caroline Bird
Publisher:
Oberon Books
Published Date:
2014-09-02
Language:
English

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Caroline Bird English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh European Women Authors

About the poet: Caroline Bird

Caroline Bird (born in Leeds, England) is one of the most acclaimed British poets and playwrights of her generation, known for her wit, formal range, and psychological intensity. Her collection The Air Year (Carcanet, 2020) won the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the Costa Poetry Award, and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her debut collection, Looking Through Letterboxes (2002), appeared when she was fifteen. Her other collections include Trouble Came to the Turnip (2006) and In These Days of Prohibition (2017). She has been shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and the Folio Prize, and her stage plays have won multiple Off West End Awards. She teaches at the Arvon Foundation.

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