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Caroline Bird

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 latest book is her Selected Poems, Rookie, published by Carcanet in Spring 2022.

Courses

Feb 19-24

Totleigh Barton

Poetry

Residential Writing Week: Queer Poetry

Uniquely ourselves

Guest: Travis Alabanza

Tips and Exercises

Exercises

Your safety instructions

We’re all familiar with the safety instruction stickers on the side of fire extinguishers, and the haiku-like advice on matchboxes: ‘store…

Tips

Serious playfulness

Pain, like a tuning fork, sings clearest when held lightly. We all want to write about the significant people/situations/emotions in our…

Tips

Vuja de

‘New experiences’ are often cited as creative fuel but let’s face it, life can be repetitive, most of us sleep in…

Exercises

Playing at families

Many years ago I wrote a poem called ‘Playing at Families’ in which I imagined that my parents were tiny dolls…