Hera Lindsay Bird

Hera Lindsay Bird is a poet from Wellington. She has an MA in poetry from Victoria University of Wellington, where she won the 2011 Adam Prize. Her self-titled debut collection of verse is coming out with Victoria University Press in 2016.

Bird comments: ‘This extract is taken from a longer poem called ‘Pain Imperatives’ which is based on the book length poem ‘Poemland’ by Chelsey Minnis.’