Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright, who won The Forward Prize for best poetry collection in 2020, and has been shortlisted for the Costa Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, and twice for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her other plays include Red Ellen which toured the UK and was universally acclaimed.

'Wickedly funny, but also an engrossing, open-minded account of a complex figure whose censoriousness went hand-in-glove with a fearless notion of free speech that feels freshly pertinent'

Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright, who won The Forward Prize for best poetry collection in 2020, and has been shortlisted for the Costa Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, and twice for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her other plays include Red Ellen which toured the UK and was universally acclaimed.

'Wickedly funny, but also an engrossing, open-minded account of a complex figure whose censoriousness went hand-in-glove with a fearless notion of free speech that feels freshly pertinent'

Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright, who won The Forward Prize for best poetry collection in 2020, and has been shortlisted for the Costa Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, and twice for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her other plays include Red Ellen which toured the UK and was universally acclaimed.

'Wickedly funny, but also an engrossing, open-minded account of a complex figure whose censoriousness went hand-in-glove with a fearless notion of free speech that feels freshly pertinent'