Caroline Bird

Caroline Bird was born in London in 1986. An exceptionally gifted young writer, she won the Poetry Society’s Simon Elvin Young Poet of the Year Award 1999 and 2000, was short-listed for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize 2001 and won an Eric Gregory Award for Poetry in 2002. She has also been a winner in the Peterloo Poets Competition (16-19yr olds) 2002, 2003 and 2004, and was a runner-up in the Tower Poetry Competition 2004. Caroline’s poems have appeared in P.N Review, Poetry Review and in The North magazine. Her first poetry collection Looking Through Letterboxes, a topical, zesty and formally delightful collection of poems built on the traditions of fairytale, fantasy and romance was published by Carcanet in February 2002.

Caroline has given poetry readings at the Royal Festival Hall, Cheltenham Festival and Ledbury Festival. Her poems and a specially-commissioned short story, 'Sucking Eggs', have been broadcast on Radio Four. A member of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme, she has also written four plays: Nothing to Say, The Pie, The Lumberjills and A Hymn With Drums. Her second collection, Trouble Came to the Turnip, was published by Carcanet in September 2006 and has been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.

Titles

Watering Can (Carcanet 2009)

Trouble Came to the Turnip (Carcanet, 2006)

Looking Through Letterboxes (Carcanet, 2002)