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Like the world we live in
Edited with an insightful introduction by Kate Simson and featuring original work from the likes of Caroline Bird
a place of refuge
and follows a sophisticated alliterative poetics
Rookie: Selected Poems by Caroline Bird Holly Pester Like the world we liveCaroline 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 her witness, set her apart: a poem is a risk, and it has to be a risk worth taking for the poet and for the reader. Starting with Looking through Letterboxes in 2002 when she was fifteen years old, she has published six Carcanet books, culminating in The Air Year which was awarded the Forward Prize in
