Caroline Bird

Caroline Bird is an author, a playwright and a poet. She was born in 1986 and grew up in Leeds and attended the Steiner School in York before moving to London in 2001. She has given poetry readings at the Royal Festival Hall, Cheltenham Festival and Ledbury Festival. Her poems and a specially-commissioned short story, "Sucking Eggs", have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She is currently studying English at the University of Oxford.

Published works

Her poems have appeared in PN Review, "Poetry Review", "The North" magazine and in Carcanet's New Poetries III anthology (2002). Her first collection, "Looking Through Letterboxes" was published by Carcanet Press in 2002. Her second collection, "Trouble Came to the Turnip" was published in 2006. A member of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme, she has also written four plays: "Nothing to Say", "The Pie", "The Lumberjills" and "A Hymn With Drums".

Prizes and Recognition

Caroline Bird won the Poetry Society's Simon Elvin Young Poet of the Year Award two years running (1999 and 2000) and won an Eric Gregory Award in 2002. She has been shortlisted for the 2008 Dylan Thomas Prize.

References

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author = Carcanet Press
year = 2006
title = Trouble Came to the Turnip
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accessdate = 2008-09-13
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/16/dylan.thomas.prize.caroline.bird Feature on Bird's shortlisting for The Dylan Thomas Prize in the "Guardian"]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7618243.stm Feature on Bird's shortlisting for The Dylan Thomas Prize on the BBC website]