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A Garden is a Long Time by Jenny Bornholdt; Annemarie Hope-Cross
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The photographs in A garden is a long time take us beyond the perimeter of the Central Otago garden where they were created. Incorporating processes and materials from the darker, more mysterious corners of early photographic history, the images offer an account of the life and sensibility of a remarkab ...Show more
An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English by Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien and Mark Williams (eds)
59.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 1997 Montana Book Awards, poetry section. This comprehensive Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English spans more than a century, revealing the richness, vitality and range of styles and voices to be found in the body of New Zealand verse. Established figures such as Ursula Bethell, Allen ...Show more
Black Barn: portrait of a place by Gregory O'Brien and Jenny Bornholdt (authors); Brian Culy (photographer)
85.00 NZD
Category: Coffee Table Books | Reading Level: very good
Meandering across the foothills of Te Mata Peak and through the Tuki Tuki Valley, Black Barn Vineyards has become one of Hawke's Bay's most popular attractions. Its evolution over the past 20 years is a story of enterprise and creativity - from a single cottage into a wine, food and luxury accommodation ...Show more
Jenny Bornholdt - (The NZ Poets: The Laureate Series) by Jenny Bornholdt
34.50 NZD
35.00 (1% off)
Category: Poetry
Jenny Bornholdt has written seven books of poetry, including a selected poems Miss New Zealand (VUW,1997). Jenny Bornholdt was Poet Laureate in in 2005/06 during which she produced Mrs Winter's Jump (Godwit,2007). Her previous book Summer (VUW,2003) was written in Menton, France when she held the Kather ...Show more
Lost and Somewhere Else by Jenny Bornholdt
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Where do I stand? Usually in the little square of sunlight by the back door. In Lost and Somewhere Else, Jenny Bornholdt finds many places to stand: at home, in memories of places and people, and in the Ernst Plischke-designed Henderson House in Alexandra, Central Otago, in which she lived while writi ...Show more
My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems by Jenny Bornholdt (ed.); Gregory O'Brien (ed.)
29.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The poems in My Heart Goes Swimming attest to the enduring nature of love and reflect the many ways in which it is written about. This collection is a celebration of love, but also of life, language and place. From delicate narratives to ecstatic lyrics, from Katherine Mansfield to Dinah Hawken, from R. ...Show more
Selected Poems by Jenny Bornholdt
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
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 alongsid ...Show more
Short Poems of New Zealand by Jenny Bornholdt
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
"I've begun to think of short poems as being the literary equivalent of the small house movement. Small houses contain the same essential spaces as large houses do. Both have places in which to eat, sleep, bathe and sit; they're the same, except small houses are, well, smaller." —Jenny Bornholdt Funny, ...Show more
Summer by Jenny Bornholdt
24.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Summer, a new collection of poems by Jenny Bornholdt, one of New Zealand?s best-loved poets is warm, witty, engaging and accomplished. The superb cover is by award-winning designer Sarah Maxey and the line drawings are by poet, essayist, artist (and Jenny's husband) Greg O?Brien. Jenny held the Kat ...Show more
The Colour of Distance: New Zealand Writers in France, French Writers in New Zealand by Jenny Bornholdt; Gregory O'Brien
34.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Since Katherine Mansfield wrote some of her greatest stories on the Riviera, France has occupied a place in the imagination of New Zealand writers and readers. This anthology includes memoirs, stories and poems written in France by some of New ZealandÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs gre ...Show more
The Hill of Wool by Jenny Bornholdt
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
The Hill of Wool is a book about memories. Some memories live in families. Some are inspired by rediscovered children's songs and stories. Others are triggered by chance encounters with old boyfriends. Sometimes personal and lyrical, sometimes jagged and strange like untamed children's rhymes, these poe ...Show more
The Longest Breakfast by Jenny Bornholdt & Sarah Wilkins
11.99 NZD
29.99 (60% off)
Category: Picture Books
A rambunctious story about the best meal of the day.