The Air Year History and contracted polio when she

and contracted polio when she was two years old

A Zoella Book Club 2017 novel

and delivers these revelations with a strength and a gravity and a communal force of voice that shakes every inhumane system' Ali Smith

and he hasn’t told his friends Miller

The Air Year History and contracted polio when sheWinner of the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection. A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (February 2020). The Air Year is a time of flight, transition and suspension: signatures scribbled on the sky. Bird's speakers exist in a state of unrest, trapped in a liminal place between take off and landing, undeniably lost. Love is uncontrollable, joy comes and goes at hurricane speed. They walk to the cliff edge, close their eyes and step out into the air.