Caroline Bird

Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. She has seven collections of poetry published by Carcanet. Her sixth collection, The Air Year, won The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020, and was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and The Polari Prize. Her fifth collection, In These Days of Prohibition, was shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize and The Ted Hughes Award. Her Selected Poems, Rookie, was published in May 2022. And her seventh collection, Ambush at Still Lake, came out this year.