Hera Lindsay Bird

Hera Lindsay Bird is a Wellington writer. Her debut self-titled book of verse was published in 2016 to immediate and vast acclaim, and won best first book of poetry at the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Hera was born in Thames in 1987.

Art
Jul 10, 2019

'She can draw a ball-sack better than anyone alive': Hera Lindsay Bird on artist Hannah Salmon

'Like Escher, if he was more into dicks than staircases.' Poet Hera Lindsay Bird celebrates the work of New Zealand artist Hannah Salmon, aka Daily Secretion, and her portraits of angry 'alpha men'.

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Books
Mar 5, 2019

Hera Lindsay Bird's unholy love for Mark Leidner

The poet Hera Lindsay Bird interviews the brilliant American writer Mark Leidner, and does her best to explain why he's her favourite writer of all time.

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Books
Jun 1, 2018

The Friday Poem: 'I want to get high my whole life with you' by Hera Lindsay Bird

New love poetry by Wellington writer Hera Lindsay Bird.

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Books
Jan 25, 2018

Book of the Week: Hera Lindsay Bird interviews Tinderbox author Megan Dunn

Poet Hera Lindsay Bird talks to Megan Dunn, author of a brilliantly funny new memoir about working at a failed bookstore while experiencing a failed marriage and making a failed attempt to write a novel.

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Books
Dec 30, 2017

Summer Reissue: Hera Lindsay Bird interviews George Saunders

Hera Lindsay Bird talks with George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo, the stand-out novel of 2017.

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Books
Jul 21, 2017

The Friday Poem: ‘Bruce Willis You Are The Ghost’ by Hera Lindsay Bird

New verse inasmuch it's previously unpublished, but really it's old verse cos it was written ages ago, by Wellington writer Hera Lindsay Bird.

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Books
May 8, 2017

Auckland Writers Festival: Hera Lindsay Bird interviews George Saunders

The very best coverage of the Auckland Writers Festival - the most expansive, the most intelligent - is right here, as the Spinoff Review of Books devotes the entire week to encounters with guest writers. Today: Hera Lindsay Bird talks with George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo, the stand-out novel of 2017.

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Books
Jul 11, 2016

‘Keats is Dead so Fuck Me From Behind’ by Hera Lindsay Bird

She had the most viewed poem in Spinoff history when she wrote that one about how she hated Monica off Friends. And now Hera Lindsay Bird is back, with her new poem, indelicately titled, "Keats is Dead so Fuck me From Behind".

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Books
May 13, 2016

The Friday poem: ‘Monica’ by Hera Lindsay Bird

The most exciting new poet in New Zealand letters takes on her most complex subject yet – Monica Geller, from Friends.

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Books
Feb 12, 2016

The Friday Poem: ‘The Ex-Girlfriends Are Back From the Wilderness’ by Hera Lindsay Bird

All week this week we've looked at writers and writing which ties in with New Zealand's first-ever LGBTI Writers' festival - samesame but different - staged from February 12-14 at AUT. Today: new verse by Wellington writer Hera Lindsay Bird.

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Books
Jan 15, 2016

The Friday Poem – ‘Hate’, by Hera Lindsay Bird

New verse by Wellington writer Hera Linday Bird.

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