Hera Lindsay Bird is one of the most widely heralded (pun intended) poets of the modern era. Her poetry is full of dazzling wordplay, rich observations, and insanely hilarious jokes. Her work has been published by Victoria University Press and Penguin UK, and she’s been profiled in Vice and The Guardian. Her poems have even gone viral! But what do poets do, exactly? How do they pay the bills? What is the importance of poetry in today’s world? Hera Lindsay Bird has the word for this and so much more. And none of it rhymes!

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