Jenny Powell’s 2026 NZ cricket poem

By Ōtepoti He Puna Auaha | Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature | Posted: Monday Sep 21, 2026

Jenny Powell's poem Distance looks at the social side of cricket, and those 'teenage flutters of heart' that come with it. It appears in Catching the Light: a new anthology of cricket poetry (Fairfield Books, 2026).