Caroline 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
the sweet-bitter world of romance. The further one reads in her
haunted tales, the more remarkable becomes the variety of forms,
metres and rhythms she uses, and the clearer their appropriateness.
Things are not ever as they seem, and the poems bring us closer to
how the world 'really' is for this talented teenager. They work
metaphorically through our expectations and prejudices, which she
rearranges and reanimates ('with a step/in your dance, a forecast
for lightning'), or those that relate to the world of childhood ('I
came to see if you were okay') where language itself has never
quite got a grip. In the poems of Caroline Bird gender politics are
starkly redefined, as are the languages with which generations
communicate and fail to agree.
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