Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Buy on Amazon. Rate this book. Hera Lindsay Bird. Love, death, Bruce Willis, public urination, being a woman, love, The Nanny, love. This pamphlet of poetry by Hera Lindsay Bird is a startling departure from her bestselling debut Hera Lindsay Bird by defying convention and remaining exactly the same, only worse. Loading interface About the author. Hera Lindsay Bird 4 books followers. Born in Thames. Write a Review. Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
P amper Me to Hell and Back is full of confessional, provocative and occasionally explicit poems, written in a conversational style with a bleak outlook on life. Many of the poems are surreal, whilst some feel more like Facebook posts, and others seem designed to be performed as spoken word. This sets the scene for a collection which is both humorous and disconcerting, light-hearted and satirical. It also reveals the underlying themes of mortality, love and the relentless monotony of life. This is not the kind of poetry that I normally read, and I must admit to being put-off initially by the more explicit and provocative lines. Perhaps it is the interminable onslaught of surprising almost ridiculous imagery, or the self-deprecating humour that runs throughout. Whatever it is, there is something unique and a little bit addictive in these poems. Other poems seem to be anti-love poems. There are some more straightforward love poems too.
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Hera Lindsay Bird is God. Grace Usleman. The grand austere pamper me to hell and back I listened to her read that poem over and over, crying at the end every time. Everything is so devastating and so stupid, and somehow that is all the same thing. Imagine again that picture of me, Joey Connolly, laughing and crying. Often in these poems humour acts as a cover for heartbreak; silliness becomes moving. Help center, pamper me to hell and back. Although they are fun. This is a poetry against easy narrative, pretence, the grand pronouncements of Authority. I love her voice - I don't mean the vibration of it in the air, but the earnest sincerity of her thoughts laid bare for the reader. But this here pamphlet suggests my awe will only increase with every new release. Long live the funny gothic juggling of Hera Lindsay Bird. This poetry neither needs nor wants to venerate the manufacture of apt metaphysical equivalences. I feel like I have found my poet soulmate.
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Part of that infectiousness comes from their strikingly idiomatic style, characterised by several traits: an informality informal to the point of ritual; short to mid-length declarative sentences, stripped of any formal expression of the strong feelings they describe; a conspicuous lack of lyricism; the deadpanning of great misery and joy. Fame, the moon, meaninglessness. Well, where historically poets have refined their language towards poetic diction and metre — and risked being programmatic and melodically repetitive as a result — Bird refines her language towards an imitation of vernacular usage. But Bird is never those things, in the same way Tennyson is never drily metrical. The other striking formal features are the barrage of similes and the frequent ellipses — both taken straight out of the poems of Chelsey Minnis. The sheer reach and imaginative variety is striking, but… is that variety part of any form? Or the other way round. Probably the other way round. The very light which makes the blossom visible also renders it sarcastic, bitter and mean. This poetry neither needs nor wants to venerate the manufacture of apt metaphysical equivalences. Rather, it wants to make a kind of metaphorical soup — with a bunch of tenors and a bunch of vehicles swilling around, bumping into each other with little clangs of humour or insight — by force of density more than precision. The grand austere aha! We see the same mockery regarding the abandon of being in love when Bird writes. Look at how ludicrous it is to be serious about any of this , the poem thinks. That is, the ability to make a statement and to both mean it very deeply while simultaneously holding it up as an object of mockery. Often in these poems humour acts as a cover for heartbreak; silliness becomes moving. These poems, like most good poems, point via negativa to the things which cannot be said. But at the same time, the poems suggest, if romantic cliché what you have to build with — then build with romantic cliché. This is a poetry against easy narrative, pretence, the grand pronouncements of Authority.
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The grand austere aha! Perhaps pamper me to hell and back is the interminable onslaught of surprising almost ridiculous imagery, pamper me to hell and back, or the self-deprecating humour that runs throughout. Hera Lindsay Bird is God. Many of the poems are surreal, whilst some feel more like Facebook posts, and others seem designed to be performed as spoken word. The humor balanced on top of painful truths and insights. Hera Lindsay Bird. There are a lot of punishments in this world And some of these punishments look a lot like day to day life Some things cannot be transformed, only endured The moon shining over all of us, with its clean white handrail. P amper Me to Hell and Back is full of confessional, provocative and occasionally explicit poems, written in a conversational style with a bleak outlook on life. MFer Photography. It also reveals the underlying themes of mortality, love and the relentless monotony of life.
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The impression is that Bird is pushing further along her challenge to the rules and regulations of lyric poetry, preferring the prose convention of lineation rather than the poetic pamper me to hell and back Emily Berry uses the same trick in her recent Stranger, Babyjust as her rhythms are those of Whatsapp rather than the lyric cadance we associate with canonical poetry. P amper Me to Hell and Back is full of confessional, provocative and occasionally explicit poems, written in a conversational style with a bleak outlook on life. Hera Lindsay Bird is God. There are a lot of punishments in this world And some of these punishments look a lot like day to day life Some things cannot be transformed, only endured The moon shining over all of us, with its clean white handrail. This is not the kind of poetry that I normally read, and I must admit to being put-off initially by the more explicit and provocative lines. I loved this more than Hera's original book I think. The imperative to be correct is the great failure of the left Sometimes you just want to wash iceberg lettuce in quiet despair. Add your Reply Cancel reply You must be logged in to post a comment. Love, death, Bruce Willis, public urination, being a woman, love, The Nanny, love. I enjoyed reading the last three poems, which have a more serious undertone, whilst still being light-hearted and full of humour, pamper me to hell and back. Bookish Bethany. More reviews and ratings. Often in these poems humour acts as a cover for heartbreak; silliness becomes moving. Loading interface Your email address will not be published. Although they are fun.
