Hera Lindsay Bird

'I think there's a pretty strong case which suggests Hera Lindsay Bird is like the most exciting newish poet in NZ' — Steve Braunias

'Hi, dear, we have to say how much we enjoyed, if right word, the Hate poem. Really made us think, loved the line about the ancient cannon' — Text message from Ashleigh Young's mum

'The wickedest problem in Hera Lindsay Bird is not sex but taste' — John Newton

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A Sunday Times Book of the Year

New Zealand's best-selling poetry collection, from the unstoppable mysterious force behind such classics as 'Monica' (as in, the one from Friends) & 'Keats is Dead so F**k Me from Behind'

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this impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl......with many beneficial thoughts and feelings......

with themes as varied as snow & tears, the poems in this collection shine with the fantastic cream of who she is.....juxtaposing many classical & modern breezes

Bird turns her prescient eye on love & loss, & what emerges is like a helicopter in fog......or a bejewelled Christmas sleigh, gliding triumphantly through the contemporary aesthetic desert.........

this is at once an intelligent & compelling fantasy of tenderness......

heart-breaking & charged with trees......without once sacrificing the forest............

whether you are masturbating luxuriously in your parents' sleepout..........

..........or pushing a pork roast home in a vintage pram.....

this is the book for you.....

heroically & compulsively stupid.....

.....whipping you once again into medieval sunlight.

(Bird) exploded on to the NZ literary scene. Her Twitter followers have ballooned to thousands (including the singer Lorde) & she’s had “minor British celebrities” befriend her on Facebook. The New Zealand Listener magazine called her debut an “unabashedly flamboyant collection”... — PoetryFoundation.org