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Caroline Bird

Looking through Letterboxes

Carcanet (Apr 01, 2002)

9781857545906

| Paperback

71 pages | 140 x 216 mm

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Subject

English Poetry

Plot

Carline Bird at first appears to be a traditional story-teller. But the stories she tells (or conceals) are suspended in a language charged with metaphor, and most of them are built upon foundations which are strangely familiar: fairy tale, fantasy and the bitter-sweet world of romance.