http://carolinebird.co.uk/wp POET Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:56:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Caroline will be performing her poetry at various festivals and events this year. Click on the 'Events' page for more details. http://carolinebird.co.uk/wp/?p=486 Caroline, who was short-listed for the 2008 International Dylan Thomas Prize, is once again in contention for the £30,000 prize with her third poetry collection, 'Watering Can.' http://www.thedylanthomasprize.com/news/news5.asp http://carolinebird.co.uk/wp/?p=477 Caroline has just come back from teaching a week-long Arvon course for the winners of the Foyles Young Poets of the Year Award. Her co-tutor was Lemn Sissay, a brilliant, inspiring man and poet. This course was particularly poignant, since Caroline herself won the competition was she was 13 years ... http://carolinebird.co.uk/wp/?p=404 You can now listen to Caroline reading some of her poems online at www.poetcasting.co.uk http://carolinebird.co.uk/wp/?p=293 These are just a few of the poems written by the young people Caroline worked with in Rural Rajasthan. Thanks to a brilliant idea by Lucy Mathen, who founded the charity Second Sight (www.secondsight.org.uk), Caroline flew to India in September to work with young people who had recently been cured ... http://carolinebird.co.uk/wp/?p=287