Product Description: Exploring the concept of memory, this collection of poetry delves into the remembrances that live and grow within families as well as those that are inspired by rediscovered children’s songs and stories. The featured verse demonstrates how some recollections are triggered by chance encounters with old boyfriends, some are personal and lyrical, and others are as strange as untamed rhymes...read more

Product Description: Exploring the intricacies of topics such as love, death, children, and illness, this new, thought-provoking poetry collection balances its denser themes with meditations on lighter subjects such as bread-making and gardening. Skillfully crafted, the images evoked in each poem offer a chance to view everyday life through a different lens...read more

Product Description: The poems in this book record the experiences of the poet and her family through the Mediterranean summer while she held the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship in Menton, France. The book begins, however, with a powerfully moving group of poems from the previous summer—the summer that wouldn’t go—when Bornholdt’s father lay dying...read more

Product Description: A sparkling new collection from one of New Zealand's most popular and widely read poets. Her first collection in five years, These Days will be snapped up by Bornholdt's fans and delight the critics.

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