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 Knihy
Caroline Bird je poetka a dramatička, ktorá vo svojej tvorbe majstrovsky prepája humor, melanchóliu a nečakané zvraty. Jej básnické zbierky, často inšpirované rozprávkami a romantickými príbehmi, vynikajú hravosťou s jazykom a sviežimi postrehmi o dospievaní a ranej dospelosti. V dramatickej tvorbe s obľubou reinterpretuje klasické príbehy a skúma ich nadčasové motívy s moderným citom pre absurditu a spoločenskú kritiku. Jej diela sú plné iskry, smútku a prekvapivej hĺbky.
Trouble Came to the Turnip
- 106 stránok
- 4 hodiny čítania
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.
In These Days of Prohibition
- 64 stránok
- 3 hodiny čítania
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'.