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 Pořadí knih (chronologicky)
Caroline Birdová je básnířka a dramatička, která ve své tvorbě mistrně propojuje humor, melancholii a nečekané obraty. Její básnické sbírky, často inspirované pohádkami a romantickými příběhy, vynikají hravostí s jazykem a svěžími postřehy o dospívání a rané dospělosti. V dramatické tvorbě s oblibou reinterpretuje klasické příběhy a zkoumá jejich nadčasové motivy s moderním citem pro absurditu a společenskou kritiku. Její díla jsou plná jiskry, smutku a překvapivé hloubky.
In These Days of Prohibition
- 64 stránek
- 3 hodiny čtení
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'.
Trouble Came to the Turnip
- 106 stránek
- 4 hodiny čtení
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.