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Shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2021
Winner of the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection
Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2020
A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (February 2020)
A Telegraph Book of the Year 2020
A Guardian Book of the Year 2020
A White Review Book of the Year 2020
The Air Year is a time of flight, transition and suspension: signatures scribbled on the sky. Bird’s speakers exist in a state of unrest, trapped in a liminal place between take-off and landing, undeniably lost. Love is uncontrollable, joy comes and goes at hurricane speed. They walk to the cliff edge, close their eyes and step out into the air.
Caroline Bird has five previous collections published by Carcanet. Her fifth collection, In These Days of Prohibition, was shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Ted Hughes Award.
Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse 
Love Is a Place 
The River Steamer and Other Poems 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
A Children's Treasury of Milligan 
Centres of Cataclysm 
Signs Like This 
Paterson Revised 
Just Like Brothers 
My First Mr. Men Nursery Rhymes