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Chamber Piece - The Poetry Shop

Oberon Books

Chamber Piece

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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?

Book Details

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

About Caroline Bird

British poet and playwright Caroline Bird won the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection for The Air Year (Carcanet, 2020), which was also shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and the Polari Prize. Born in Leeds in 1986, she published her debut, Looking Through Letterboxes (Carcanet, 2002), at fifteen. In These Days of Prohibition (Carcanet, 2017) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Ted Hughes Award, and Ambush at Still Lake followed from Carcanet in 2024. She won the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award twice and received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002. She teaches for the Arvon Foundation.

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