Trouble Came to the Turnip by Caroline Bird
Following Looking Through Letterboxes, her first collection (2002), Caroline Bird was acclaimed as a vivid and precocious new talent. Trouble Came to the Turnip confirms her originality as she strikes out again in new directions, taking nothing for granted. Her poems are ferociously vital, fantastical, sometimes violent, almost always savagely humorous and self-mocking. Caroline Bird's world is inhabited by failed and (less often) successful relationships, by the dizzying crisis of early adulthood, by leprechauns and spells and Miss Pringle's seven lovely daughters waiting to spring out of a cardboard cake. And the turnip.
Reviews of Caroline Bird's previous collection: 'The tone fuses knowing innocence and integrity; some poems are faux naif with a ballad lilt, others are sad, funny surreal; all are studded with fresh imaginative insights' - Ruth Padel, Financial Times 'Her poems burst with linguistic energy, and the book is profligate with striking lines and images.' - Times Literary Supplement
Caroline Bird has seven previous volumes published by Carcanet. Her sixth collection, The Air Year, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020 and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize and the Costa Prize. Her fifth collection, In These Days of Prohibition, was shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize and the Ted Hughes Award. A two-time winner of the Foyles Young Poets Award, her first collection Looking Through Letterboxes was published in 2002 when she was 15. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and was shortlisted for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2001 and the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2008 and 2010. She was one of the five official poets at the 2012 London Olympics.In 2023, she won a Cholmondeley Award. Her Selected Poems, Rookie, was published in 2022.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857548877 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857548876 |
| Title | Trouble Came to the Turnip |
| Author | Caroline Bird |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-09-28 |
| Number of pages | 106 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Dylan Thomas Prize (Literary Excellence) 2008 |
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