Following "Looking Through Letterboxes", her first collection (2002), Caroline Bird was acclaimed as a vivid and precocious new talent. "Trouble Came to the Turnip" confirms her originality as she strikes out again in new directions, taking nothing for granted. Her poems are ferociously vital, fantastical, sometimes violent, almost always savagely humorous and self-mocking. Caroline Bird's world is inhabited by failed and (less often) successful relationships, by the dizzying crisis of early adulthood, by leprechauns and spells and Miss Pringle's seven lovely daughters waiting to spring out of a cardboard cake, and the turnip.
- ISBN10 1306010357
- ISBN13 9781306010351
- Publish Date 1 January 2011 (first published 28 September 2006)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Carcanet Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 113
- Language English