In These Days of Prohibition [electronic resource]
Bird, Caroline2017
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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'. 'Bird has always written wise, bitterly funny and intellectually bracing poems. What has developed over the course of five collections is a voice heartbreaking in vision yet consoling in its constant and inspired invention.' LUKE KENNARD. 'Bird is irrepressible, she simply explodes with poetry ... funny, sad, deadly ...' SIMON ARMITAGE
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[Place of publication not identified] : Carcanet Poetry, 2017
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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9781784104795
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English
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3031251