Poetry Review: StAnza 2009

Part of a review in The Scotsman:

Then there's the way in which New Zealand's Jenny Bornholdt (pic right) gently wove together the simple things of life and the profound: the building of a garden shed, the loss of a parent, the illness of a child. And the way in which Alan Gillies conjured the voice of a young female soldier in Basra, with ballsy brashness and lingering sadness.

Read the full review here.

Footnote:

Jenny Bornholdt and Bill Manhire are in Scotland for this festival, and also for the launch at New Zealand House in London tonight of Twenty Contemporary New Zealand Poets.