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Caroline Bird - In These Days of Prohibition, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

In These Days of Prohibition

Av Caroline Bird

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Shortlisted for the 2017 Ted Hughes AwardShortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize 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’.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-07-27
  • Mått: 135 x 216 x 7 mm
  • Vikt: 100 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 64
  • Förlag: Carcanet Press Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781784104788
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for T.S. Eliot Prize 2017
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Caroline Bird has seven previous volumes published by Carcanet. Her sixth collection, The Air Year, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020 and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize and the Costa Prize. Her fifth collection, In These Days of Prohibition, was shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize and the Ted Hughes Award. A two-time winner of the Foyles Young Poets Award, her first collection Looking Through Letterboxes was published in 2002 when she was 15. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and was shortlisted for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2001 and the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2008 and 2010. She was one of the five official poets at the 2012 London Olympics.In 2023, she won a Cholmondeley Award. Her Selected Poems, Rookie, was published in 2022.

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'The poems of In These Days of Prohibition are disquieting: institutionalised, hedonistic, vacuous and nihilistic. The collection takes a hard look at contemporary society but is, ultimately, uplifting. If Brett Easton Ellis wrote poems, I'd like to think they'd be poems like these.' John Field in the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist newsletter

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