Her sixth collection, The Air Year was published in February 2020, and was book of the month in The Telegraph, book of the year in the Guardian, shortlisted for the Costa Prize, and winner of the Forward Prize. Her fourth collection, The Hat-Stand Union, was described by Simon Armitage as ‘spring-loaded, funny, sad and deadly.’ Her fifth collection, In These Days of Prohibition (published July 2017) was shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize and the 2017 Ted Hughes Award. Watering Can, her third collection published in November 2009 celebrates life as an early twenty-something with comedy, wordplay and bright self-deprecation. Her second collection, Trouble Came to the Turnip, was published in September 2006 to critical acclaim. Her first collection Looking Through Letterboxes (published in 2002 when she was only 15) is a topical, zesty and formally delightful collection of poems built on the traditions of fairy tale, fantasy and romance. Caroline was on the shortlist for Shell Woman Of The Future Awards 2011.Ĭaroline has had seven books of poetry published by Carcanet. She has also won an Eric Gregory Award (2002) and the Foyle Young Poet of the Year award two years running (1999, 2000), and was a winner of the Poetry London Competition in 2007, the Peterloo Poetry Competition in 2004, 20. She was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2014. She was shortlisted for the Costa Prize 2020, the TS Eliot Prize 2017, the Ted Hughes Award 2017, and the Dylan Thomas Prize twice in 20. Caroline Bird was born in 1986 and grew up in Leeds before moving to London in 2001.Ĭaroline won The Forward Prize for best poetry collection in 2020, and was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and the Polari Prize.
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