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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.
Contents
Contents:
Trouble Came to the Turnip
Virgin
The Money
The World is not Made for Frogs
Our Lollipop Lady
This Time Last Week
An Opera in One Act
Put Your Earmuffs on Your Eyes
Love Has Arrived
Shiny Bin
The Softness of the Morning
Relationship Dolls
Wednesday
The Leprechaun Thinks It Matters
A Gentlewoman's Pornography
Good Friday Outside Barcelona Cathedral
My Love Made Me a Hat
Sugar Pot Shakedown
Shortfall of Water
Pumpkins
Board-Rubber Dust
Let the People Starve
Banana Milk
My Lovely Legless Acrobat
Mermaids in My Coffee
Mono
The Choirboy Brothers
The Fairy Is Bored with Her Garden
Sunday
Chant and be Happy
Christmas Poem
Talent to Talent
The Plague
Mope
The Lady with the Lamp
Distant Dog
And a Touch of Dried Peppermint
Moving on a Midnight Train
Let's Write Another Poem
Blue Water
Clog
It Will Come to Pass
Not Like This
Child Bride
War Poem
Old Friends
Facial
Concert Tour
A Seasonal Surprise for Miss Pringle
Meat
This Bar Is Full of Octopuses
Presents
The Mistress of the House
Not a Raindrop
Mary-Jane
Extracts from an Archive Recently Discovered in a School Wastepaper Bin
It's True
Then
Full House
Where is all the Mist?
Ode to a Cubicle
I Fell in Love with a Crooner
City Bed
Chaining Bikes To This Girl Is Strictly Prohibited
A Bewitchment to Revive a Lustreless Relationship.
Remains
You Had a Latin Lesson
All Things Yellow
A Sunny Day on Earth
Ahhhhhhh
Credits
Bathtub Spider
Bread
