Author(s): Jenny Bornholdt

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 Katherine Mansfield Fellowship in Menton, France in 2002. Most of the poems in Summer record the experiences of the poet and her family through the Mediterranean summer. The book begins, however, with a powerfully moving group of poems from the previous summer ? ?the summer that wouldn?t go? ? when Jenny?s father lay dying.