Rachel Long & Caroline Bird

Something New: Rachel Long & Caroline Bird

Leading contemporary poets Rachel Long (My Darling from the Lions) and Caroline Bird (Rookie, The Air Year) present a new anthology of alternative poems for alternative weddings, be they small, huge, camp as Christmas, hilarious, glamorous or the low-key but profound culmination of a forty-year love.

Bored of the ‘one size fits all’ wedding poem, Rachel and Caroline are joined by poets from across the Canterbury LGBTQ+ community to showcase local talent and celebrate love in all its sizes, flavours and styles.

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Ambush at Still Lake

Bird, Caroline

£10.79 £11.99

Caroline Bird's new collection charts marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery: the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness, after the happy ending.

My Darling from the Lions

Long, Rachel

£9.89 £10.99

A beautiful and searching debut collection exploring shame, love and healing, from a thrilling new voice.

Rookie: Selected Poems

Bird, Caroline

£11.69 £12.99

A Selected Poems spanning six collections and twenty years, from childhood bewilderment to adult bewilderment through Bird's oxymoronic lens of 'jaunty trauma'.

Something New: Alternative Poems for Alternative Weddings

Bird, Caroline

£15.29 £16.99

Edited by two of the most exciting British poets in a generation, Something New is an anthology of one hundred fresh and exciting poems reflecting the weddings of today.