Ambush at Still Lake

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

A Telegraph Book of the Year 2024

A Financial Times Poetry Book of the Year 2024

Caroline Bird's new poems show us the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness after the happy ending. This is a collection about marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery in which a recurring dream is playing out: a world where mums impale themselves on pogo-sticks, serial killers rattle around in basements, baby monitors are haunted by someone else's baby and, through it all, love stays and stays like a stationary rollercoaster that turns out to be the scariest, most thrilling ride in the amusement park.

Her editor welcomed the book in these terms: 'It is bleak, repellent and hilarious in an American Psycho-ish way. Hectic and vivid.'

'Vegetable crisps.

The words yawn like a black hole,

sucking my eyes backwards

into my head until I see

my own brain glowing

like a radioactive cauliflower.'

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781800174122
Published: June 2024

Number of pages: 84
Width: 135 mm
Height: 216 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd