Trouble Came to the Turnip

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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.

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Reviews of Caroline Bird's previous collection: 'The tone fuses knowing innocence and integrity; some poems are faux naif with a ballad lilt, others are sad, funny surreal; all are studded with fresh imaginative insights.' - Ruth Padel, Financial Times 'Her poems burst with linguistic energy, and the book is profligate with striking lines and images.' - Times Literary Supplement

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Trouble came to the turnip	p. 1
Virgin	p. 3
The money	p. 4
The world is not made for frogs	p. 5
Our lollipop lady	p. 6
This time last week	p. 7
An opera in one act	p. 12
Put your earmuffs on your eyes	p. 13
Love has arrived	p. 14
Shiny bin	p. 16
The softness of the morning	p. 17
Relationship dolls	p. 19
Wednesday	p. 20
The leprechaun thinks it matters	p. 21
A gentlewoman's pornography	p. 22
Good Friday outside Barcelona Cathedral	p. 24
My love made me a hat	p. 25
Sugar pot shakedown	p. 26
Shortfall of water	p. 28
Pumpkins	p. 29
Board-rubber dust	p. 30
Let the people starve	p. 32
Banana milk	p. 33
My lovely legless acrobat	p. 35
Mermaids in my coffee	p. 36
Mono	p. 37
The Choirboy brothers	p. 39
The fairy is bored with her garden	p. 41
Sunday	p. 42
Chant and be happy	p. 43
Christmas poem	p. 44
Talent to talent	p. 46
The plague	p. 47
Mope	p. 48
The lady with the lamp	p. 49
Distant dog	p. 53
And a touch of dried peppermint	p. 54
Moving on a midnight train	p. 55
Let's write another poem	p. 58
Blue water	p. 59
Clog	p. 60
It will come to pass	p. 61
Not like this	p. 63
Child bride	p. 64
War poem	p. 65
Old friends	p. 66
Facial	p. 67
Concert tour	p. 70
A seasonal surprise for Miss Pringle	p. 71
Meat	p. 73
This bar is full of octopuses	p. 74
Presents	p. 76
The mistress of the house	p. 77
Not a raindrop	p. 79
Mary-Jane	p. 80
Extracts from an archive recently discovered in a school wastepaper bin	p. 81
It's true	p. 82
Then	p. 84
Full house	p. 85
Where is all the mist?	p. 87
Ode to a cubicle	p. 89
I fell in love with a crooner	p. 90
City bed	p. 91
Chaining bikes to this girl is strictly prohibited	p. 92
A bewitchment to revive a lustreless relationship	p. 94
Remains	p. 95
You had a Latin lesson	p. 97
All things yellow	p. 98
A sunny day on Earth	p. 100
Ahhhhhhh	p. 101
Credits	p. 102
Bathtub spider	p. 105
Bread	p. 106
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