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The Air Year by Caroline Bird
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06Shortlisted 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... -
Chamber Piece by Caroline Bird
Booksplease Price: €14.60In this pitch-black comedy, fatal chemicals combine with ruthless ambition, biscuits, bureaucracy and moral ambiguity. Set in the near future, Britain has reinstated the death penalty. Relatives are... -
In These Days of Prohibition Caroline Bird 9781784104788
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06Shortlisted for the 2017 Ted Hughes Award. Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize. In These Days of Prohibition is Caroline Bird's fifth Carcanet collection. As always, she is a poet of dark... -
Watering Can Caroline Bird 9781847770882
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €9.03Caroline Bird's two earlier collections were acclaimed for their exuberant energy, surreal imagination and passion - 'a bit of a Howl for a new generation', wrote the "Hudson Review". "Watering Can"... -
The Iphigenia Quartet by Caroline Bird 9781783193202
Booksplease Price: €15.78Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter, Clytemnestra must try to stop him, Iphigenia must accept her fate, the Chorus must watch.Ships lie dormant in harbours, and thousands of troops sit on the... -
Red Ellen by Caroline Bird 9781839040665
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.64'A working-class woman inside the walls of Westminster? If that is not espionage, I do not know what is.' Forever on the right side of history, but on the wrong side of life, Labour MP Ellen... -
Trouble Came to the Turnip by Caroline Bird 9781857548877
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €9.03Following "Looking Through Letterboxes", her first collection (2002), Caroline Bird was acclaimed as a vivid and precocious new talent. "Trouble Came to the Turnip" confirms her originality as she... -
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Caroline Bird 9781783199822
Booksplease Price: €14.60An angry orphan escapes a grey town on the back of a hurricane. She lands in a mysterious country of tiny people and wicked witches, where the trees carry bazookas, the crows recite slam poetry, and... -
Rookie: Selected Poems by Caroline Bird 9781800171862
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.45Longlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2023. Caroline Bird is one of Carcanet's most popular poets. Her startling instinct for metaphor, the courage of her choice of subjects and the integrity of... -
Looking Through Letterboxes Caroline Bird 9781857545906
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €9.03Caroline Bird at first appears to be a traditional story-teller. But the stories she tells are suspended, charged with metaphor, and built upon foundations strangely familiar: fairy tale, fantasy and... -
Ambush at Still Lake by Caroline Bird 9781800174122
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.65Caroline Bird's new poems show us the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness after the happy ending. This is a collection about marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery in which... -
Hat-Stand Union by Caroline Bird 9781847771643
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €9.03Playful in earnest, Caroline Bird in her fourth book of poems turns familiar stories on their heads. Adrift in a surreal world of the everyday, Bird's protagonists declaim Chekhov in supermarkets,... -
The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse Caroline Bird 9781839044915
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.83'And what happens when the pendulum swings too far? We push back.' A wickedly funny new play that explores the enigma of Mary Whitehouse: pearl-clutching prude or 'the most dangerous woman in... -
Something New: Alternative poems for alternative weddings by Caroline Bird 9781035069170
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.73Until recently, a wedding was no place for reinvention: everything from the location to the outfits to the language of the ceremony was decided by our particular cultures, religions and social... -
Second Careers: New Ways to Work after 50 by Caroline Bird 9780316095990
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.66Based on a survey of six thousand senior citizens by Modern Maturity magazine, this guide describes the rewards of embarking on a new career after age fifty, and provides detailed discussions of... -
Crafting Country: Aboriginal Archaeology in the Eastern Chichester Ranges, Northwest Australia by Caroline Bird 9781743326169
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €25.72Based on ten years of surveys and excavations in Nyiyaparli country in the eastern Chichester Ranges, north-west Australia, Crafting Country provides a unique synthesis of Holocene archaeology in the... -
Compact Guide to South Carolina Birds by Curtis Smalling 9789768200266
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768200266Author Curtis SmallingFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
Compact Guide to North Carolina Birds by Curtis Smalling 9781774511558
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.60This easy-to-use field guide will help even the novice birder identify the species encountered in backyards and along wilderness trails across North Carolina. Over 80 different birds are featured,... -
Birding North Carolina: More Than 40 Premier Birding Locations by Carolina Bird Club 9780762731343
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.72Edited by Marshall Brooks and Mark Johns, this book features the best birdwatching sites in North Carolina as chosen by the members of the Carolina Bird Club. Full of practical information on where... -
The Kids' Guide to Birds of the Carolinas: Fun Facts, Activities and 86 Cool Birds by Stan Tekiela 9781647553135
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Get the children's field guide to 86 bird species in North Carolina and South Carolina, organized by color to help kids identify them. Stan Tekiela's famous Birds of the Carolinas Field Guide has... -
Attracting Birds in the Carolinas: Creating Bird-Friendly Habitats from the Mountains to the Coast by James F. Parnell 9781469662251
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €9.78Covering the Carolinas from up-country to the Piedmont to the Coastal Plain, this book is an in-depth yet accessible primer on the many ways that Carolinians can attract birds--from large wildlife... -
The Trojan Women by Euripides 9781849435048
Booksplease Price: €16.95A modern-day version of Euripides' anti-war play, The Trojan Women has been rewritten and is set in a mother-and-baby unit of a prison. The war is over. Beyond the prison walls, Troy and its... -
Poems of the Decade 2011-2020: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2011-2020 by Various Poets
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Poems of the Decade 2011-2020 celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Gathering one hundred poems by writers and performers who have drawn new audiences to the artform,... -
Women on Campus: The Unfinished Liberation by George W. Bonham 9781412805599
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €37.12Women on Campus is a collection of compelling essays from the staff of Change, the foremost monthly magazine on American higher learning. This widely praised collec-tion of essays on the feminist... -
PN Review 254 by Michael Schmidt
Booksplease Price: €10.52The July-August 2020 issue. Robyn Marsack celebrates Edwin Morgan's centenary. Frederic Raphael's polemic about the pandemic. Kirsty Gunn on Lockdown. Interviews with the great American poet Douglas... -
Adapting Translation for the Stage Geraldine Brodie 9780367736095
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27Translating for performance is a difficult - and hotly contested - activity. Adapting Translation for the Stage presents a sustained dialogue between scholars, actors, directors, writers, and those... -
Shapeshifting for Beginners by Emma Simon 9781784632854
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.39Emma Simon's wide-ranging, work explores how strange and surreal the everyday can be and how real life and stories tend to bleed into one another. These poems - mysterious, mythic, magical - remain... -
America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon--What Happened and Why by Godfrey Hodgson 9780691122885
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €48.47America in Our Time is a history of the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the fall of Richard Nixon. Focusing on the 1960s, the book debunks some of the myths about that much... -
Breakfast with the Scavengers Ben Rhys Palmer 9781917140560
RRP: €11.90Booksplease Price: €9.21A Welsh poet based in Mexico, his poems about Mexico capture the magic and vibrancy of a country Andre Breton once described as 'the mostsurrealist in the world.' Other poems pay homage to Welsh cult... -
Proud by Juno Dawson 9781788957021
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.62VISIONARY HONOURS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 Celebrate the fifth anniversary of PROUD in this dazzling new edition of the anthology, featuring a brand-new story and artwork. A stirring, bold and... -
Oi You Lot by Kareem Parkins-Brown 9781913268640
RRP: €8.93Booksplease Price: €7.52'The sky belongs to everybody and everybody belongs to the sky. When the genie comes out, wish for late buses and missed trains, and beers on benches, because when someone is gone, they are... -
Absence by Ali Lewis 9781739440503
RRP: €13.09Booksplease Price: €9.54Absence, the third title in CHEERIO's acclaimed poetry series, is a book about nothing. Or nothings: losses, vacua, gaps. From the desolation at the heat-death of the universe to the ... -
The Craft - A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century. by Rishi Dastidar 9781911027850
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.80The Craft is an indispensable guide to both the 'how' and 'why' of poetic craft in the 21st century, and essential writing-desk companion for poets at all stages. The book covers practical techniques... -
Nocturne Jodie Hollander 9781802078138
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €12.77Longlisted for Laurel Prize 2023. Set in a technicolour world of dreams, ghosts, classical music, and Key West storms, Jodie Hollander's compelling second collection charts the emotional journey of... -
Girl by Rebecca Goss 9781784107239
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06Shortlisted for the 2019 East Anglian Book (Poetry) Award. In Girl, Rebecca Goss considers the emotional and physical connections women make to the world around them. The poems interrogate and... -
Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry Jenna Clake 9781474494359
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.41In an era of political and social turmoil on both sides of the Atlantic, where issues of gender, race and class are linked with concerns of how to survive in a capitalist society, a new aesthetic of... -
Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and Us Poetry by Lecturer in Creative Writing Jenna Clake 9781474494342
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €96.45In an era of political and social turmoil on both sides of the Atlantic, where issues of gender, race and class are linked with concerns of how to survive in a capitalist society, a new aesthetic of... -
New Poetries V: An Anthology by Michael Schmidt 9781847771315
Booksplease Price: €18.96For two decades "New Poetries" has been a proving-ground for new poets in English from around the world. Here readers first encountered, in generous selections, work by, among others, Caroline Bird,... -
Forgetfulness Ian Seed 9781837380114
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22In its tragicomic navigation of different forms of loss, Forgetfulness moves from the allegorical to the abstract lyric, through to the surreal-absurd, and finally to a series of splintered memories... -
This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland 9781916760189
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.65How do we maintain connection in challenging times? This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland encounters the wild and untamed, the creatures of night - and the beasts that lurk within us. Here, the poems...