The Air Year
POETRY
64 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5
Formats: Paperback, Mobipocket, ebook: EPUB, ebook: PDF
Paperback, $16.99 (US $16.99) (CA $22.99)
Publication Date: April 2020
ISBN 9781784109028
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Overview
Shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2021. Winner of the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2020. A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (February 2020). A Telegraph Book of the Year 2020. A Guardian Book of the Year 2020. The Air Year is a time of flight, transition and suspension: signatures scribbled on the sky. Bird's speakers exist in a state of unrest, trapped in a liminal place between take-off and landing, undeniably lost. Love is uncontrollable, joy comes and goes at hurricane speed. They walk to the cliff edge, close their eyes and step out into the air. Caroline Bird has five previous collections published by Carcanet. Her fifth collection, In These Days of Prohibition, was shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Ted Hughes Award.Author Biography
Caroline Bird is an award-winning poet living in London. Her first collection Looking Through Letterboxes was published when she was 15. She won a major Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and was short-listed for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2001. She was short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2008 and 2010. She was one of the five official poets at London Olympics 2012. Her poem, ‘The Fun Palace,’ which celebrates the life and work of Joan Littlewood, is still erected on the Olympic Site outside the main stadium. Her collection In These Days of Prohibition (2017) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry. She is also a playwright.
