Rookie: Selected Poems

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.