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Shocks and conversations, Mark Williams
The Friday Poem: 100 New Zealand Poems Steve Braunias (ed) David Bateman, $25.00, ISBN 9780473450281 Short Poems of New Zealand Jenny Bornholdt (ed) Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781776562022 Two new poetry anthologies: one featuring beautifully composed small poems selected…
Tagged with: David Bateman, Issue 126, Jenny Bornholdt, Mark Williams, Steve Braunias, Winter 2019
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Poetry and the poem, Michael Hulse
Selected Poems Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776560660 If I begin by saying that Jenny Bornholdt gives the impression of being a very modest person, it’s not because this review is to be an assessment of her character,…
Tagged with: Issue 116, Jenny Bornholdt, Michael Hulse, Summer 2016, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
New seeds for old, Kathryn Walls
The Mijo Tree Janet Frame (Deidre Copeland illus) Penguin, $25.00, ISBN 9780143569428 A Book is a Book Jenny Bornholdt (Sarah Wilkins illus) Gecko Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781877579929 Dunger Joy Cowley Gecko Press, $20.00, ISBN 9781977579462 Janet Frame sent the typescript…
Tagged with: Autumn 2014, Deidre Copeland, Gecko Press, Issue 105, Janet Frame, Jenny Bornholdt, Joy Cowley, Kathryn Walls, Penguin Books, Sarah Wilkins
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Raw edges of wonder, Janet Hughes
The Hill of Wool Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864736529 Thicket Anna Jackson Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9871869404826 Aloe Diana Bridge Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 98718669404413 The Leaf Ride Dinah Hawken Victoria University…
Tagged with: Airini Beautrais, Anna Jackson, Auckland University Press, Diana Bridge, Dinah Hawken, Issue 96, Janet Hughes, Jenny Bornholdt, Summer 2011, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Voicing, Harry Ricketts
The Rocky Shore Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864735805 The Rocky Shore is Jenny Bornholdt’s ninth volume of poems, published over the last 20 years. Its six extended sequences, “Confessional”, “The Rocky Shore”, “Willow”, “Fitter Turner”, “A Long…
Tagged with: Harry Ricketts, Issue 87, Jenny Bornholdt, Spring 2009, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Domestic pastoral, Harry Ricketts
Summer Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734522 Jenny Bornholdt’s poems could be called “domestic pastoral”. This is one of the strongest – though often undervalued – lines in New Zealand poetry. You can trace it from Ursula Bethell’s…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Harry Ricketts, Issue 61, Jenny Bornholdt, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Jenny Bornholdt
December Last days of December broccoli squeaking on the stove and your hair – it’s a tidal wave crashing forwards as you bend to open the envelope you sent from Fielding, in 1971, to your father – in it,…
A breath of fresh sound, Harvey McQueen
Birds of Europe Andrew Johnston Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 86473 386 0 These Days Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 86473 385 2 Delacroix remarked that to be a poet when one is twenty is…
Tagged with: Andrew Johnston, Autumn 1999, Harvey McQueen, Issue 45, Jenny Bornholdt, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Decoys of simplicity, Terry Sturm
Miss New Zealand: Selected Poems Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press, $27.95 ISBN 0 86473 323 2 One of the earliest poems in this selection, “In the Garden”, Jenny Bornholdt’s subject is that bane of all gardeners, the common onion weed.…
Tagged with: Issue 33, Jenny Bornholdt, Terry Sturm, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The making of a ‘too hospitable’ canon, Mac Jackson
An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English ed Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O’Brien and Mark Williams Oxford University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0 19 558338 8 “I cannot think that real poets have any competition,” wrote Blake. But we lesser mortals…
Tagged with: Gregory O’Brien, Issue 27, Jenny Bornholdt, Mac Jackson, Mark Williams, Oxford University Press, Winter 1997
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
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