Watering Can
Published on 1. August 2011
96 pages
978-1-84777-789-8 (ISBN)
Description
Caroline Bird's two earlier collections were acclaimed for their exuberant energy, surreal imagination and passion - 'a bit of a Howl for a new generation', wrote the Hudson Review. Watering Can celebrates life as an early twenty-something. The poems, writes Caroline Bird, 'contain prophetic videos, a moon colonised by bullies, weeping scholars, laughing ducks, silent weddings - all the fertiliser that pours on top of your head.' The extraordinary verve and compassion of her verse propels us into the anxiety of new responsibilities. Raw but never hopeless, Watering Can has comedy, wordplay and bright self-deprecation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
NYC
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
File size
0,47 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84777-789-8 (9781847777898)
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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.
Content
Contents
The Videos
Last Tuesday
Peaked
Wild Flowers
The Golden Kids
Impartial Information
Expecting Rain
The Monogamy Optician
The Oven Glove Tree
Bow Your Head and Cry
Head Girl
Road Signs
Bright Winter Mornings in Oxford Town
Stage Kiss
Seesaw
Penelope's Chair
D.N. eh?
Hard Times
Weather Vain
Grudge
Sun Settlers
The Fall of London
House and Soul
Our Infidelity
The Doom
Perspectives
Poetry as a Competitive Sport
Wedding Guest
From the Sewer to the Sea: 'A Healing Progress'
Detox
Poet in the Class
Blame the Poodle
Short Story
Lunacy
The Perfect Man
Reminder Notice
Mr Bird
Flat Mate
The University Poetry Society
I Married Green-Eyes
Familiar Ground
Women in Progress
Sky News
Closet Affair
Inner-city Plot
The Alcoholic Marching Song
Company of Women
XI Tyrant
A Love Song
The Videos
Last Tuesday
Peaked
Wild Flowers
The Golden Kids
Impartial Information
Expecting Rain
The Monogamy Optician
The Oven Glove Tree
Bow Your Head and Cry
Head Girl
Road Signs
Bright Winter Mornings in Oxford Town
Stage Kiss
Seesaw
Penelope's Chair
D.N. eh?
Hard Times
Weather Vain
Grudge
Sun Settlers
The Fall of London
House and Soul
Our Infidelity
The Doom
Perspectives
Poetry as a Competitive Sport
Wedding Guest
From the Sewer to the Sea: 'A Healing Progress'
Detox
Poet in the Class
Blame the Poodle
Short Story
Lunacy
The Perfect Man
Reminder Notice
Mr Bird
Flat Mate
The University Poetry Society
I Married Green-Eyes
Familiar Ground
Women in Progress
Sky News
Closet Affair
Inner-city Plot
The Alcoholic Marching Song
Company of Women
XI Tyrant
A Love Song
