Caroline Bird

Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her sixth collection, The Air Year, won the Forward Prize for Poetry 2020 and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize and the Polari Prize. Her previous collections include In These Days of Prohibition, which was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2017. Caroline’s latest play, Red Ellen, about the labour MP Ellen Wilkinson, was shortlisted for the 2021 George Devine Award. Caroline’s Selected Poems, Rookie, was published by Carcanet in Spring 2022 and her latest collection, Ambush at Still Lake, is forthcoming in June 2024.

She won a Cholmondeley Award in 2023.