A Selected Poems spanning six collections and twenty years, from childhood bewilderment to adult bewilderment through Bird's oxymoronic lens of 'jaunty trauma'.
Caroline Bird Ordre des livres (chronologique)
Caroline Bird est une poète et dramaturge dont l'œuvre entrelace magistralement humour, mélancolie et rebondissements inattendus. Ses recueils de poésie, souvent inspirés par les contes de fées et les histoires romantiques, sont célébrés pour leur jeu linguistique et leurs aperçus frais sur l'adolescence et le début de l'âge adulte. Dans son théâtre, elle réinterprète fréquemment des récits classiques, explorant des thèmes intemporels avec une sensibilité moderne pour l'absurde et la critique sociale. Son écriture se caractérise par sa verve, sa poignance et sa profondeur surprenante.
In These Days of Prohibition
- 64pages
- 3 heures de lecture
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'.
Trouble Came to the Turnip
- 106pages
- 4 heures de lecture
Ferociously vital, savagely humorous, and self-mocking, this poetry collection focuses on a world that is inhabited by failed and successful relationships during the dizzying crisis of early adulthood, offering insight into the pleasures and pains of growing up.