{"product_id":"hera-lindsay-bird-9780141987408","title":"Hera Lindsay Bird","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hera Lindsay Bird\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Without doubt the most arresting and original new young poet, on the page and in performance' - Carol Ann Duffy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year and New Zealand's best-selling collection, from the unstoppable force behind such poems as 'Monica' (the one from \u003ci\u003eFriends\u003c\/i\u003e) and 'Keats is Dead so F**k Me from Behind'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethis impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl......with many beneficial thoughts and feelings......\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ewith 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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBird 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.........\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethis is at once an intelligent and compelling fantasy of tenderness......\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eheart-breaking and charged with trees......without once sacrificing the forest............\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ewhether you are masturbating luxuriously in your parents' sleepout..........\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e..........or pushing a pork roast home in a vintage pram...................\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethis is the book for you.............................................\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eheroically and compulsively stupid..................................................................\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e...........................................................whipping you once again into medieval sunlight.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR HERA LINDSAY BIRD\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'I think there's a pretty strong case which suggests Hera Lindsay Bird is like the most exciting newish poet in NZ' - Steve Braunias\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The wickedest problem in Hera Lindsay Bird is not sex but taste' - John Newton\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45084179890327,"sku":"9780141987408","price":700.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780141987408.webp?v=1767636546","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/hera-lindsay-bird-9780141987408","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}