Caroline Bird is one of Carcanet's most popular poets. Her startling instinct for metaphor, the courage of her choice of subjects and the integrity of her witness, set her apart: a poem is a risk, and it has to be a risk worth taking for the poet and for the reader.
Starting with Looking through Letterboxes in 2002 when she was fifteen years old, she has published six Carcanet books, culminating in The Air Year which was awarded the Forward Prize in 2020, shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize and the Costa Poetry Prize, and a Book of the Year in the Telegraph, Guardian and White Review.
Rookie presents a formidable body of work composed over two decades from one of the poetry world's most energetic and consistently compelling voices.
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When you've reached the peak,the summit, the end, you've come to the limit, let me tell you gently that the world is round, my sweet, and it's all a long walk backwards, starting from here. GEOGRAPHY LESSONS
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(@Carcanet, 26 May 2022, ebook, 192 pages, borrowed from @natpoetrylib via @OverDriveInc)
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This is a new poet for me. I really enjoyed Rookie though I rarely read selected works by poets I haven't discovered before. The poems are fun, well-written, engaging and a good mix of styles and subject matter. No two poems are alike which I found refreshing.
