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  • Something New

    Alternative Poems for Alternative Weddings

    by Caroline Bird ...
    Until 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 expectations of gender and domestic roles; and of course, many of us were unable to get married at all. Now gay marriage is legal in Britain; heterosexual couples can have civil partnerships; we can get ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse

    by Caroline Bird ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'And what happens when the pendulum swings too far? We push back.'In the 1970s, one enigmatic old lady wielded extraordinary influence, fighting against what she believed was the UK's moral decline. Armed with only a typewriter, this seemingly harmless grandmother took on the BBC and the 'godless media' in a culture war that divided the nation.Inspired by real events, Caroline Bird's wickedly ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • Life, Death, and the Birth of Truth

    A Medium’S Communication with the Other Side

    by Caroline Byrd ...
    What sort of life would you live if you no longer feared the dying process? Do you want to understand?? Where do we go when we die?? How does the crossover happen?? Can our loved ones in spirit make contact with us?? Should we be afraid of dying, and what happens next?Life, Death, and the Birth of Truth is a journey through Caroline Byrds experiences as she communicates and works with souls and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Rookie

    Selected Poems

    by Caroline Bird ...
    A formidable collection from a singular voice in British poetry.Caroline Bird, Forward Prize winner and one of Carcanet's most popular poets, presents a selection of her best work from the past two decades. Starting with Looking through Letterboxes written when she was just fifteen, this collection showcases her startling instinct for metaphor and courageous exploration of complex subjects.Rookie ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Air Year

    by Caroline Bird ...
    The Air Year is a time of flight, transition, and suspension: the shrill air as you fall through love, before crash, comedown—commitment. The poet crosses challenging threshholds: fear of commitment, of motherhood, shame, and panic. 'I am proficient at beginnings,' Caroline Bird says. This book goes further and (with her characteristic energy and exuberance) risks the next level. People run on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crafting Country

    Aboriginal Archaeology in the Eastern Chichester Ranges, Northwest Australia

    by Caroline Bird, James W. Rhoads ...
    Series series Tom Austen Brown Studies in Australasian Archaeology
    Based 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 Pilbara region. The analysis of about 1000 sites, including surface artefact scatters and 19 excavated rock shelters, as well as thousands of isolated artefacts, takes a broad view of the landscape, ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Chamber Piece

    by Caroline Bird ...
    In 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 weeping in the witness gallery, the journalist clicks her pen and the prison governor gives the thumbs up. Rapist murderer Richard Sanger is strapped to the gurney. Chamber Piece depicts a modern, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Red Ellen

    by Caroline Bird ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    '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 Wilkinson is caught between revolutionary and parliamentary politics as she fights for a better world.Battling to save Jewish refugees in Nazi Germany; campaigning for Britain to aid the fight against Franco's ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In These Days of Prohibition

    by Caroline Bird ...
    A darkly hilarious and unflinching exploration of the human psyche in the modern world.In These Days of Prohibition, Caroline Bird delves into the badlands of the human psyche with her signature blend of poetic and vulgar registers. Shifting between surreal imagery and telling social commentary, Bird's poems hold their subjects in an unflinching grip, asking what it is that keeps us alive.These ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chamber Piece

    by Caroline Bird ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    In 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 weeping in the witness gallery, the journalist clicks her pen and the prison governor gives the thumbs up. Rapist murderer Richard Sanger is strapped to the gurney. Chamber Piece depicts a modern, ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    by Caroline Bird ...
    Series series Oberon Plays for Young People
    An 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 a mouse can blow your head off.In just one day, this little girl revolutionizes an entire nation. She brings freedom, and colour. Her name is DOROTHY. ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Iphigenia Quartet

    by Caroline Bird, Lulu Raczka, Chris Thorpe, Ms Suhayla El-Bushra ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Agamemnon 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 shore, growing restless and unruly. Helen is gone, and pursuit of her has been stalled by windless seas. To raise the winds to send his fleet to Troy, Agamemnon is commanded by the gods to sacrifice his ... Read more

    $15.99 USD