Hera Lindsay Bird
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:30th Nov '17
Should be back in stock very soon
'Without doubt the most arresting and original new young poet, on the page and in performance' - Carol Ann Duffy
A Sunday Times Book of the Year and New Zealand's best-selling collection, from the unstoppable force behind such poems as 'Monica' (the one from Friends) and 'Keats is Dead so F**k Me from Behind'
this impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl......with many beneficial thoughts and feelings......
with themes as varied as snow and tears, the poems in this collection shine with the fantastic cream of who she is--juxtaposing many classical and modern breezes
Bird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and 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 and compelling fantasy of tenderness......
heart-breaking and 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 and compulsively stupid--..
--...whipping you once again into medieval sunlight.
PRAISE FOR 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
Frank and outrageous ... it has made me, like many others, more excited about poetry than I have been in a long time * Guardian *
Full of outrageous guilty pleasures. She writes with the cheek of Frank O'Hara * Telegraph *
Funny, clever and deadpan and kept me hanging on every line ... Her writing has a freshness and straightforwardness that strides confidently off the page -- Jon McGregor * Observer *
The deadpan comic bravado of the New Zealand poet Hera Lindsay Bird looks literary decorum in the eye and dares it to blush -- Jeremy Noel-Tod * Sunday Times *
A literary phenomenon ... goofy, funny and tender, her energy and sensitivity will captivate * Elle *
Without doubt the most arresting and original new young poet, on the page and in performance -- Carol Ann Duffy
ISBN: 9780141987408
Dimensions: 197mm x 153mm x 8mm
Weight: 127g
112 pages