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In These Days of Prohibition
Häftad, 2017
126 kr
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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 …
Something New
Alternative Poems for Alternative Weddings
Inbunden, 2025
203 kr
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Until recently, a wedding was no place for reinvention: everything from the location to the outfits to the language of the ceremony was decided by our particular cultures, religions and social expectations of gender and domestic roles; and of course, many of us were unable to get married at all. …
Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Häftad, 2015
188 kr
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An angry orphan escapes a grey town on the back of a hurricane. She lands in a mysterious country of tiny people and wicked witches, where the trees carry bazookas, the crows recite slam poetry, and a mouse can blow your head off.In just one day, this little girl revolutionizes an entire nation. …
Red Ellen
Häftad, 2022
160 kr
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'A working-class woman inside the walls of Westminster? If that is not espionage, I do not know what is.'Forever on the right side of history, but on the wrong side of life, Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson is caught between revolutionary and parliamentary politics as she fights for a better …
Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse
Häftad, 2025
165 kr
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'And what happens when the pendulum swings too far? We push back.'In the 1970s, one enigmatic old lady wielded extraordinary influence, fighting against what she believed was the UK's moral decline. Armed with only a typewriter, this seemingly harmless grandmother took on the BBC and the 'godless …
Something New
Alternative Poems for Alternative Weddings
E-bok, 2025
281 kr
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Until recently, a wedding was no place for reinvention: everything from the location to the outfits to the language of the ceremony was decided by our particular cultures, religions and social expectations of gender and domestic roles; and of course, many of us were unable to get married at all. …
Crafting Country
Aboriginal Archaeology in the Eastern Chichester Ranges, Northwest Australia
Av Caroline Bird, James W. Rhoads
Häftad, 2020
350 kr
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Based on ten years of surveys and excavations in Nyiyaparli country in the eastern Chichester Ranges, north-west Australia, Crafting Country provides a unique synthesis of Holocene archaeology in the Pilbara region.
Chamber Piece
Häftad, 2013
188 kr
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In this pitch-black comedy, fatal chemicals combine with ruthless ambition, biscuits, bureaucracy and moral ambiguity. Set in the near future, Britain has reinstated the death penalty. Relatives are weeping in the witness gallery, the journalist clicks her pen and the prison governor gives the …
Iphigenia Quartet
Av Caroline Bird, Lulu Raczka m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
204 kr
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Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter, Clytemnestra must try to stop him, Iphigenia must accept her fate, the Chorus must watch.Ships lie dormant in harbours, and thousands of troops sit on the shore, growing restless and unruly. Helen is gone, and pursuit of her has been stalled by windless seas. …
Iphigenia Quartet
Av Caroline Bird, Lulu Raczka m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
215 kr
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Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter, Clytemnestra must try to stop him, Iphigenia must accept her fate, the Chorus must watch.Ships lie dormant in harbours, and thousands of troops sit on the shore, growing restless and unruly. Helen is gone, and pursuit of her has been stalled by windless seas. …
Chamber Piece
E-bok, 2013
193 kr
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In this pitch-black comedy, fatal chemicals combine with ruthless ambition, biscuits, bureaucracy and moral ambiguity. Set in the near future, Britain has reinstated the death penalty. Relatives are weeping in the witness gallery, the journalist clicks her pen and the prison governor gives the …
Wonderful Wizard of Oz
E-bok, 2015
197 kr
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An angry orphan escapes a grey town on the back of a hurricane. She lands in a mysterious country of tiny people and wicked witches, where the trees carry bazookas, the crows recite slam poetry, and a mouse can blow your head off.In just one day, this little girl revolutionizes an entire nation. …
Air Year
Häftad, 2020
126 kr
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Shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2021. Winner of the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection.Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2020. A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (February 2020).A Telegraph Book of the Year 2020. A Guardian Book of the Year 2020. The Air Year is a time of flight, …
Rookie
Selected Poems
Häftad, 2022
163 kr
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Longlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2023. Caroline Bird is one of Carcanet's most popular poets. Her startling instinct for metaphor, the courage of her choice of subjects and the integrity of her witness, set her apart: a poem is a risk, and it has to be a risk worth taking for the poet and for …
Ambush at Still Lake
Häftad, 2024
151 kr
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A Telegraph Book of the Year 2024A Financial Times Poetry Book of the Year 2024Caroline Bird's new poems show us the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness after the happy ending. This is a collection about marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery in which a recurring dream is …
Watering Can
Häftad, 2009
127 kr
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Caroline Bird’s two earlier collections were acclaimed for their exuberant energy, surreal imagination and passion - 'a bit of a Howl for a new generation', wrote the Hudson Review. Watering Can celebrates life as an early twenty-something. The poems, writes Caroline Bird, 'contain prophetic …
Swapping The Present For A Future
The VERVE Anthology of Beginnings
Häftad, 2022
135 kr
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This books contains the winning and commended poems from the VERVE Festival 2022 competition on the theme of BEGINNINGS. We hoped that this year’s poems would, in part, reflect the pause that the pandemic that shall not be named has forced upon us all, some violently, some peacefully, but all of us …
