Hera Lindsay Bird - Softcover

Bird Hera Lindsay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 177656071X ISBN 13: 9781776560714

Publisher: Victoria University Press, 2016

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, heartbreaking and charged with trees without once sacrificing the forest.

Review:

The deadpan comic bravado of the New Zealand poet Hera Lindsay Bird looks literary decorum in the eye and dares it to blush at her bad-taste metaphors and emotional bull's-eyes (Jeremy Noel-Tod Sunday Times)

Without doubt the most arresting and original new young poet, on the page and in performance (Carol Ann Duffy)

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)

From the Back Cover:

'Without doubt the most arresting and original new young poet, on the page and in performance'
CAROL ANN DUFFY, POET LAUREATE OF BRITAIN

'Hi, dear, 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

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

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

• Publisher: Victoria University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 177656071X
• ISBN 13: 9781776560714
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112