Rookie: Selected Poems by Caroline Bird Holly Pester as one poem observes of

as one poem  observes of a glider riding a thermal

in the wake of the success of her 2018 book-length sequence

and putting them into a sensible order

and follows a sophisticated alliterative poetics

Rookie: Selected Poems by Caroline Bird Holly Pester as one poem observes ofCaroline Bird is one of Carcanet's most popular poets. Her startling instinct for metaphor, the courage of her choice of subjects and the integrity of her witness, set her apart: a poem is a risk, and it has to be a risk worth taking for the poet and for the reader. Starting with Looking through Letterboxes in 2002 when she was fifteen years old, she has published six Carcanet books, culminating in The Air Year which was awarded the Forward Prize in