Hera Lindsay Bird

Guest writer

Hera Lindsay Bird's 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.

HANNAH SALMON, from THE MODERN ALPHA series (Jones, Trump and Kavanaugh), 2019.

5th January, 2020

‘She can draw a ball-sack better than anyone alive’ – Hera Lindsay Bird on artist Hannah Salmon

Summer reissue: Poet Hera Lindsay Bird celebrates the work of New Zealand artist Hannah Salmon, aka Daily Secretion, and her portraits of angry 'alpha men'.

By Hera Lindsay Bird

Image: Pixabay

27th September, 2019

The Friday Poem: COLORADO SPRINGS 1989 by Hera Lindsay Bird

A new poem by Hera Lindsay Bird.

By Hera Lindsay Bird

HANNAH SALMON, from THE MODERN ALPHA series (Jones, Trump and Kavanaugh), 2019.

10th July, 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'.

By Hera Lindsay Bird

Hera Lindsay Bird’s unholy love for Mark Leidner

5th March, 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.

By Hera Lindsay Bird

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

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.

By Hera Lindsay Bird

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

25th January, 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.

By Hera Lindsay Bird

Summer Reissue: Hera Lindsay Bird interviews George Saunders

30th December, 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.

By Hera Lindsay Bird

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

21st July, 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.

By Hera Lindsay Bird

Auckland Writers Festival: Hera Lindsay Bird interviews George Saunders

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.

By Hera Lindsay Bird

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

11th July, 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".

By Hera Lindsay Bird