Juvenilia - by Hera Lindsay Bird (Paperback)

About the Book

"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. 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............................................."--

Book Synopsis

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.

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.............................................

Review Quotes

"Randomly absurd at times, histrionic yet fresh, Bird delivers emotion offset by absurdity as she moves from failed hookups to triumphant love. These intense poems will keep readers laughing." -Publishers Weekly

"Recently ran across a New Zealand poet, Hera Lindsay Bird, who does a version of what I used to do, but does it 100x better." --David Berman

"Frank and outrageous ... [I]t 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 ... [G]oofy, 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

"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." --Kimmy Walters

"Randomly absurd at times, histrionic yet fresh, Bird delivers emotion offset by absurdity as she moves from failed hookups to triumphant love. These intense poems will keep readers laughing." --Publishers Weekly

"Recently ran across a New Zealand poet, Hera Lindsay Bird, who does a version of what I used to do, but does it 100x better." --David Berman

"Frank and outrageous ... [I]t 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 ... [G]oofy, 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

"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." --Kimmy Walters

About the Author

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.