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Book Synopsis''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
Trade Review
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
