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​HERA LINDSAY BIRD
Victoria University Press - 2016
Penguin UK -2017

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………

Whether you are masturbating luxuriously in your parent’s 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.



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

"“if you have forgotten what a poem is, you should read Hera Lindsay Bird’s poems. if you haven’t forgotten what a poem is, you should forget immediately and then read Hera Lindsay Bird’s poems. this collection makes me feel like I’m extremely late to work because I’ve been happily dead for 100 years. wow! I love it very much and I can’t wait to watch Netflix with Hera in girl heaven forever” - Kimmy Walters






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PAMPER ME TO HELL AND BACK
Laureate's Choice Chapbook
The Poetry Business - February 2018

Selected in 2018 by Carol Ann Duffy as part of the Laureate's Choice Collection.

Love, death, Bruce Willis, public urination, being a woman, love, The Nanny, love. This pamphlet of poetry by Hera Lindsay Bird is a startling departure from her bestselling debut Hera Lindsay Bird by defying convention and remaining exactly the same.

In a recent comments section on the Guardian, her work has been described as “This comment was removed by a moderator because it didn't abide by our community standards. Replies may also be deleted. For more detail see our FAQs,” and “This comment was removed by a moderator because it didn't abide by our community standards. Replies may also be deleted. For more detail see our FAQs.” 


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Irony vs Sincerity 
Type Specimen book for Klim Type Foundry 2019 

The Sincerity/Irony Heldane specimen book is the result of a collaboration between Klim, New Zealand poet Hera Lindsay Bird and design agency Alt Group.
Bird mines the absurdity and humour of sincerity and irony. The text starts at opposing ends before meeting and muddling in the middle, decked out in a spray of Heldane Display in foil-stamped rainbow glitter. 

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