By Hera Lindsay Bird
The North American debut by cult favorite New Zealand poet Hera Lindsay Bird, Juvenilia wrangles the flamboyant, provocative pique of youth into a poetry collection highly focused and desperately alive.
Publication date: June 3, 2023
Paperback: 9781646053773
eBook: 9781646053902
Description
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 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………………………………………
Biographical Note
Hera Lindsay Bird is a poet and performer from New Zealand. She is the author of chapbook Pamper Me to Hell & Back (The Poetry Business, 2018) and a self-titled debut collection, which became a best-seller in New Zealand and a Sunday Times Book of the Year.
Reviews
"I think there's a pretty strong case which suggests Hera Lindsay Bird is like the most exciting newish poet in NZ."—Steve Braunias
"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