Please don’t send Hera Lindsay Bird your erotic poetry. After the New Zealand poet was interviewed by the The Guardian she “got a lot of elderly men writing, sending me their erotic poems in the ‘contact me’ section of my website”. Eventually things got so out of hand she had to add a disclaimer saying: “Please don’t send me any erotic poems.” “That only made things worse,” she says ruefully. It’s fair to say those elderly men missed the point of Bird’s poetry. If you flick through the index of her self-titled debut collection, Hera Lindsay Bird,…

Source: The Times December 15, 2018 00:01 UTC