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In These Days of Prohibition

by Caroline Bird

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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'.
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Book Details

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

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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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