The Air Year

About Caroline Bird

Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. She has five previous collections of poetry published by Carcanet. Her most recent collection In These Days of Prohibition was shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Ted Hughes Award. A two-time winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award her first collection Looking Through Letterboxes was published in 2002 when she was 15. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and was shortlisted for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2001 and the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2008 and 2010. She was shortlisted for Most Promising New Playwright at the Off-West-End Awards and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her theatre credits include: The Trojan Women (Gate Theatre 2012) The Trial of Dennis the Menace (Purcell Room 2012) Chamber Piece (Lyric Hammersmith 2013) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Northern Stage 2015) and The Iphigenia Quartet (Gate Theatre 2016). She was one of the five official poets at the 2012 London Olympics.