Jennifer Mary Bornholdt MNZM (born 1 November 1960) is a New Zealand poet and anthologist. She was New Zealand's Poet Laureate in 2005-2007.
Jenny Bornholdt | |
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 Bornholdt at 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair | |
| 5th New Zealand Poet Laureate | |
| In office 2005–2007 | |
| Preceded by | Brian Turner |
| Succeeded by | Michele Leggott |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jennifer Mary Bornholdt 1 November 1960 Lower Hutt, New Zealand |
| Spouse | Gregory O'Brien |
Early life
editBorn in Lower Hutt, Bornholdt received a bachelor's degree in English Literature and a Diploma in Journalism. She studied poetry with Bill Manhire at Victoria University of Wellington in 1984.[1][2]
Career
editShe is co-editor of My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems and the Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English, which won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 1997. In addition, Bornholdt won the 2002 Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship, was a recipient of one of the 2003 Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Awards, and was named the fifth Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate in 2005. Her poems were selected for the Best New Zealand Poems series in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005.[3][4][5]
In the 2014 New Year Honours, Bornholdt was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services as a poet.[6]
In 2023 Te Herenga Waka University Press published A Garden is a Long Time by Bornholdt and Annemarie Hope-Cross.[7][8][9]
Personal life
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She lives in Wellington, and is married to poet Gregory O'Brien.[10]
Books
editPoetry
editBornholdt's poetry has been published in a number of volumes:
- 1988: This Big Face
- 1989: Moving House
- 1991: Waiting Shelter
- 1995: How We Met
- 1997: Miss New Zealand: Selected Poems
- 2000: These Days
- 2003: Summer
Children's books
edit- 2013: A Book is A Book
- 2017: The Longest Breakfast
Editor
edit- Co-editor, with Gregory O'Brien, My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems, Random House New Zealand (2000) ISBN 0-908877-81-1, ISBN 978-0-908877-81-2
- Co-editor Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English
References
edit- ^ "Jenny Bornholdt". Annual Annual | NZ. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ "Collection: Bornholdt, Jenny - Literary papers of Jenny Bornholdt | Victoria University of Wellington". archives.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ "Jenny Bornholdt - Writer's Files • Read NZ Te Pou Muramura". www.read-nz.org. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ "Jenny Bornholdt". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ "Jenny Bornholdt | Arts Foundation Laureate". Arts Foundation. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ "New Year honours list 2014". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Poet Jenny Bornholdt: A Garden is a Long Time". RNZ. 15 July 2023. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ "Photography on the slow burn, capturing a different image of our past". www.thepost.co.nz. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ Green, Paula (27 September 2023). "Poetry Shelf review: A Garden is a Long Time by Annemarie Hope-Cross and Jenny Bornholdt". NZ Poetry Shelf. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ "Jenny Bornholdt and Gregory O'Brien receive honours". www.stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 15 February 2024.