Author(s): Jenny Bornholdt

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 Katherine Mansfield Memorial Scholarship. The 34 poems on this CD can be found in Miss New Zealand (tracks 1-17), Summer (tracks 18-29) and Mrs Winter's Jump (tracks 30-34)

The Poems are: In The Garden, Rodnie And Her Bicycles, Instructions for how to get ahead of yourself while the light still shines, Poem, Paul And His Ancestors, In Love, The Man Dean Went To Photograph, Weighing Up The Heart, Make Sure, The Baters, Cast In Order Of Appearance, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Annunciation, Wedding Song, Estonian Songs, Please Pay Attention, Then Murray Came, Being A Poet, Jack's Shirt, Villanelle, The Train To Nice, Train, Outings, France, Ode To The Little Hotel, Peach The Jam, Blue Shirts Descending, Helen's House, Confessional, Photograph, Summer, Concert, Not Go Away and Mrs Winter's Jump.