A play that tells the remarkable true story of an inspiring and brilliant woman: Ellen Wilkinson, who was a campaigning Labour MP in the 1930s and 40s.
Caroline Bird Boeken
Caroline Bird is een dichter en toneelschrijver wiens werk meesterlijk humor, melancholie en onverwachte wendingen met elkaar verweeft. Haar poëziebundels, vaak geïnspireerd door sprookjes en romantische verhalen, worden geprezen om hun taalspel en frisse inzichten in adolescentie en vroege volwassenheid. In haar drama's herinterpreteert ze regelmatig klassieke verhalen, waarbij ze tijdloze thema's verkent met een moderne gevoeligheid voor het absurde en sociale commentaar. Haar schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door pit, ontroering en verrassende diepgang.
The Air Year
- 64bladzijden
- 3 uur lezen
The sixth collection from award-winning poet and dramatist Caroline Bird.
Trouble Came to the Turnip
- 106bladzijden
- 4 uur lezen
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.
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's new collection charts marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery: the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness, after the happy ending.
In These Days of Prohibition
- 64bladzijden
- 3 uur lezen
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'.
