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In These Days of Prohibition

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In These Days of Prohibition is Caroline Bird's fifth Carcanet collection. As always, she is a poet of dark hilarity and telling social comment. Shifting between poetic and vulgar registers, the surreal imagery of her early work is re-deployed to venture into the badlands of the human psyche. Her poems hold their subjects in an unflinching grip, addressing faces behind the veneer, asking what it is that keeps us alive. These days of prohibition are days of intoxication and inebriation, rehab in a desert and adultery for atheists, until finally Bird edges us out of danger, 'revving on a wish'.

Book Details

Publisher:
Carcanet Press
ISBN:
9781784104788
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
64
Authors:
Caroline Bird
Published Date:
2017-08-01
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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