In These Days of Prohibition
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1784104787
ISBN-13
9781784104788
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Imprint
Carcanet Poetry
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 27th, 2017
Print length
64 Pages
Weight
100 grams
Dimensions
22.70 x 15.00 x 0.70 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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A great performer on page and stage, Caroline Bird in her fifth collection pretends to lay down her celebrated satiric weaponry to seek out ‘simple truth’. Venturing into the badlands of the human psyche, she finds more than we bargained for.
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’.
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