In These Days of Prohibition by Caroline Bird 2016 ‘This latest addition to the

‘This latest addition to the extensive inventory of Neruda’s works is a miniretrospective that captures the essence of his more famous works

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Perhaps you’ll want to annoy your family by reading them out

specifically Helen’s supposed deceit and infidelity

The Sarajevo rose of the book’s title – a mortar crater filled with red resin

In These Days of Prohibition by Caroline Bird 2016 ‘This latest addition to theIn These Days of Prohibition is Caroline Birds fifth Carcanet collection. As always, she is a poet of dark hilarity and telling social comment. Shifting between poetic and vulgar registers, the surreal imagery of her early work is re deployed to venture into the badlands of the human psyche. Her poems hold their subjects in an unflinching grip, addressing faces behind the veneer, asking what it is that keeps us alive. These days of prohibition are