Caroline Bird Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Caroline Bird on X
Poet & playwright. Selected Poems, ‘Rookie’ out now from Carcanet: https://t.co/ys06Wwxz7U. Winner of The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020

Fixer: Poems
Edgar Kunz
‘I catch a bus out to the country and check in at a beige terminal and they ask me about the smells and textures of various dips’ - I love this poem by Edgar Kunz, from his upcoming book ‘Fixer’ @edgarjameskunz https://t.co/P47A5cYfhQ
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Best American Poetry 1997
James Tate
@pdxbrock I read it in the Best American Poetry 1997, edited by James Tate, one of my favourite anthologies
Paperback, 1997
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Mary Ruefle
@WalkerOfEdges This makes so much sense. It reminds me of quote from Madness, Rack and Honey where Mary Ruefle says something about how each poem requires us to both disclose our secret and keep it at the same time
Paperback, 2012
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Turn Up the Ocean: Poems
Tony Hoagland
‘He’s got a long way to go - he’s got to get to Abilene before they hang the wrong man’ - from the great Tony Hoagland’s new, posthumous collection ‘Turn Up the Ocean’ https://t.co/VNkngyxiBR
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Quiet: Poems
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
‘Somewhere beneath this poem is the one you sat down to write’ - from Victoria Adukwei Bulley’s new collection ‘Quiet.’ @victoriaadukwei https://t.co/PeXrNj26e4
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Slide
Mark Pajak
‘The smell of an old book is a memory of trees. A boy can tilt into it, the way a drunk tilts her glass…’ - from ‘Slide’ by Mark Pajak https://t.co/EVE5QyiCwI
Paperback, 2022
$23.99$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Strike Anywhere
Dean Young
I love this poem by Dean Young (from ‘Strike Anywhere’) https://t.co/xODNX41Bou
Paperback, 1995
$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poems
Valentine
If you like your Valentine’s poems relentlessly bleak… 🖤 https://t.co/7at0Qv1S3k
Paperback, 2018
$5.55$2.78 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Home Child: From the Forward Prize-Winning Author of Black Country
Liz Berry
‘They sent him away on the dawn train to Wolfville’ - from Liz Berry’s stunning new collection ‘The Home Child’ @MissLizBerry https://t.co/Qcxo7N7bhg
Paperback, 2025
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Illustrated Woman: The Brilliant New Collection from Award-Winning Poet Helen Mort
Helen Mort
@RosannaMcGlone @JohnMcCullough_ @VKennefick @pascalepoet From Helen Mort’s brilliant ‘The Illustrated Woman’ @HelenMort https://t.co/Y1k2KtJbec
Paperback, 2022
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book