Winner of the 2025 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award, The Gum Trees of Kerikeri by Lynn Jenner is a beautifully crafted and quietly compelling tour de force. Grounded in the natural world and the community of the land the speaker lives on – an area in the far north of Aotearoa New Zealand that was once a kauri forest – the collection weaves observations and encounters from daily life with musings on societal and environmental issues, memory, history, art and culture. The result is a deeply observant, reflective collection on that most challenging of constants: change.
Author Biography
Lynn Jenner is the author of Peat (OUP 2019), a collection of essays and glossaries which consider the construction of the Kapiti Expressway in the light of aesthetic and ecological ideas drawn from the writings of Charles Brasch. Lynn’s first book Dear Sweet Harry (AUP 2010) won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry prize and her second book Lost and Gone Away (AUP 2015) was shortlisted in the Non-Fiction category of the Ockham Book Awards. Lynn lives in Waipapa, near Kerikeri.
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