Shortlisted for the 2017 Ted Hughes Award
Shortlisted 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'.
| ISBN: | 9781784104788 |
| Publication date: | 27th July 2017 |
| Author: | Caroline Bird |
| Publisher: | Carcanet Poetry an imprint of Carcanet Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 63 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
Shortlisted for the 2017 Ted Hughes Award
Shortlisted 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'.
In These Days of Prohibition features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
In These Days of Prohibition is available in Paperback, Ebook
In These Days of Prohibition was written by Caroline Bird and published by Carcanet Poetry an imprint of Carcanet Press
In These Days of Prohibition has 63 pages
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