Caroline Bird was born in 1986 and grew up in Leeds before moving to London in 2001. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and the Foyle Young Poet of the Year Award in 1999 and 2000. Caroline has had numerous collections of poetry published by Carcanet, including Looking Through Letterboxes (published in 2002 when she was only 15), Trouble Came to the Turnip, Watering Can, The Hat-Stand Union, In These Days of Prohibition (which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize), The Air Year (which won the Forward Prize for Best Collection and was shortlisted for both the Costa Prize and the Polari Prize) and Ambush At Still Lake. Her Selected Poems, ROOKIE, was published by Carcanet in Spring 2022.
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