
' Without doubt the most arresting & original new young poet on the page & in performance'
- Carol Ann Duffy A Sunday Times Book of the Year & New Zealand's best-selling collection from the unstoppable force behind such poems as ' Monica' (the one from Friends) & ' Keats is Dead so Fk Me from Behind'this impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girlwith many beneficial thoughts & feelingswith themes as varied as snow & tears the poems in this collection shine with the fantastic cream of who she isjuxtaposing many classical & modern breezes Bird turns her prescient eye on love & loss & what emerges is like a helicopter in fogor a bejewelled Christmas sleigh gliding triumphantly through the contemporary aesthetic desertthis is at once an intelligent & compelling fantasy of tendernessheart-breaking & charged with treeswithout once sacrificing the forestwhether you are masturbating luxuriously in your parents' sleepoutor pushing a pork roast home in a vintage pramthis is the book for youheroically & 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