Caroline Bird is an English poet and playwright, born in 1986 and raised in Leeds. Bird's debut poetry collection LOOKING THROUGH LETTERBOXES was published in 2002 when she was just 15 years old. Her subsequent poetry collections are TROUBLE CAME TO THE TURNIP (2006), WATERING CAN (2009), THE HAT-STAND UNION (2013), IN THESE DAYS OF PROHIBITION (2017), shortlisted for both the Ted Hughes Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and THE AIR YEAR (2020) which won the Forward Prize for Best Collection and was shortlisted for both the Costa Prize and the Polari Prize. Her Selected Poems, ROOKIE, was published by Carcanet in Spring 2022. Bird’s latest collection, AMBUSH AT STILL LAKE was published in June 2024. Bird’s work is celebrated for its masterful use of imagery, wit, and voice, with poet Simon Armitage lauding her poetry as “spring-loaded, funny, sad, and deadly.”

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