Selected Poems

Jenny Bornholdt is the major New Zealand poet of her generation. Her new Selected Poems provides a full representation of her work through nine collections and nearly thirty years. Favorite short poems like 'How to get ahead of yourself while the light still shines' and 'Being a poet' are here alongside vernacular anecdotes like 'Then Murray came' and powerful long poems like 'Confessional' and 'Big Minty Nose' from her award-winning collection The Rocky Shore. Filled with the lyric beauty, wit and feeling for which Jenny Bornholdt is renowned, Selected Poems will be essential reading for years to come.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Published: 09/01/2017
ISBN: 9781776560660
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d