Watering Can

Overview

Packed with wry comedy, satire, and wordplay, this collection of poems celebrates life as an early 20-something. The extraordinary verve and compassion of the verse reveals the anxiety of new responsibilities and contains a vast array of imagery, including prophetic videos, a moon colonized by bullies, weeping scholars, laughing ducks, and silent weddings. Filled with exuberant energy and passion, these occasionally self-deprecating poems are raw but never hopeless.

Reviews

"What an original captivating and spellbinding voice. This is a wonder, a beautifully written book of poems."  —Lemn Sissay, author, Listener

"An exuberantly, exhilaratingly fresh voice—funny and piercingly insightful."  —Andrew Davies, award-winning author and screenwriter

"An astonishingly assured piece of work, studded with fresh, imaginative insights."  —Ruth Padel, award-winning poet, Tigers in Red Weather

Author Biography

Caroline Bird is an award-winning poet and a member of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme. Her work has appeared in New Poetries III, North magazine, PN Review, and Poetry Review, and she is the author several plays and books, including Looking Through Letterboxes, Nothing to Say, The Pie, and Trouble Came to the Turnip. She has won the Poetry Society’s Simon Elvin Young Poet of the Year Award twice, the Eric Gregory Award, and was short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize for writers under 30.