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Selected poems / Jenny Bornholdt.
Van Pelt Library PR9699.B736 A17 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bornholdt, Jenny, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Zealand poetry.
- New Zealand poetry--20th century.
- New Zealand poetry--21st century.
- Genre:
- New Zealand poetry -- 21st century.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Wellington : Victoria University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- I. Weighing up the heart
- Scrub cut
- In the garden
- A love poem has very long sentences
- Poem
- Rodnie and her bicycles
- Paul and his ancestors
- Reading the body
- Sophie travels backwards on the train
- Weighing up the heart
- In love
- Spring
- Instructions for how to get ahead of yourself while the light still shines
- Working drawing
- From behind the hedge
- Picture of the life
- The movies
- From the album
- The boyfriends
- Bus stop
- Make sure
- The bathers
- Cast in order of appearance
- Tourists often stop
- Waiting shelter
- Overseas
- We will we do
- II. These days
- Estonian songs
- Wedding song
- Red lorry yellow lorry
- The journey
- The man Dean went to photograph
- Weather
- Travel
- Tornado
- Then Murray came
- Please, pay attention
- from These days
- Villanelle
- Pastoral
- The jersey
- Jack's shirt
- The train to Nice
- Train
- Outings
- Saturday afternoon
- Being a poet
- Ode to the little hotel
- Peach, the jam
- Blue shirts, descending
- Helen's house
- Confessional
- III. Pearly everlasting
- Summer
- Concert
- Not go away
- Women and men
- Flannel
- Medical
- A long way from home December
- Life
- Mrs Winter's jump
- Fitter turner
- Big minty nose
- All time moving
- The inner life
- Last days
- Christmas
- Animalia
- Tower of London
- Pearly everlasting
- Undone
- Memory
- Autumn
- Full moon
- Poem about a horse
- May
- Time
- Forty fifty.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781776560660
- 1776560663
- OCLC:
- 951725190
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