In These Days of Prohibition by Caroline Bird 2016 the vibrant

the vibrant

The Sarajevo rose of the book’s title – a mortar crater filled with red resin

Will there be bodies floating under the plastic pool-cover

Cambridge from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century

specifically Helen’s supposed deceit and infidelity

In These Days of Prohibition by Caroline Bird 2016 the vibrantIn These Days of Prohibition is Caroline Birds fifth Carcanet collection. As always, she is a poet of dark hilarity and telling social comment. Shifting between poetic and vulgar registers, the surreal imagery of her early work is re deployed to venture into the badlands of the human psyche. Her poems hold their subjects in an unflinching grip, addressing faces behind the veneer, asking what it is that keeps us alive. These days of prohibition are