- Source: Jenny Bornholdt
Jennifer Mary Bornholdt (born 1 November 1960) is a New Zealand poet and anthologist. She was New Zealand's Poet Laureate in 2005-2007.
Early life
Born 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.
Career
She 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.
In the 2014 New Year Honours, Bornholdt was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services as a poet.
In 2023 Te Herenga Waka University Press published A Garden is a Long Time by Bornholdt and Annemarie Hope-Cross.
Personal life
She lives in Wellington, and is married to poet Gregory O'Brien.
Books
= Poetry
=Bornholdt'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
=2013: A Book is A Book
2017: The Longest Breakfast
= Editor
=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
External links
New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre
New Zealand Book Council
Author profile
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Jenny Bornholdt
- Bornholdt
- Cliff Curtis
- Taika Waititi
- Bill Manhire
- Jemaine Clement
- Rachel House
- New Zealand Memorial, Canberra
- Michael Hurst
- George Henare
