Stand-Up Poetry Club featuring Caroline Bird –

Due to personal reasons, this event has been cancelled. We will endeavour to find another date for Caroline Bird in the 2023 programme.

 

Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. She has six collections of poetry published by Carcanet. Her most recent collection, The Air Year, won The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020, and was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and The Polari Prize. Her fifth collection, In These Days of Prohibition, was shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize and The Ted Hughes Award. Her Selected Poems, Rookie, was published in May 2022. 

 

“Her phrasemaking is sublime... it's superb” The Telegraph 

 

Support on the night comes from Lewis Buxton. 

"Buxton is a performer in full control of his craft, combining the confidence of an arena comedian with the sensitivity of a poet…brimming with talent…don’t be surprised if you see him on your television screens soon.’ Eastern Daily Press 

 

Your host, as ever, is Luke Wright 

“Curiously classless, perfectly placed to dissect the dreams of the British nation. His lexical acrobatics are astounding, often motor-mouthed and breathtakingly honest.” The List