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Selected Poems

Jenny Bornholdt · 2016

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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. Favourite 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.

Book details

Year
2016
Language
English
Publisher
Victoria University of Wellington Press
Editions
1
Pages
208
ISBN
9781776560660

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