<p>Longlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2023<br>Caroline 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.<br>Starting with Looking through Letterboxes in 2002 when she was fifteen years old, she has published six Carcanet books, culmina...