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JENNY BORNHOLDT
2003 Laureate
Poet
Jenny Bornholdt was born in Wellington in 1960.
A poet and anthologist, she has published eight books of poems, including: This Big Face (1988), Moving House (1989), Waiting Shelter (1991), How We Met (1995), Miss New Zealand: Selected Poems (1997) and These Days (2000). The freshness of her poetry, along with her lucid explorations of the simple and the familiar, have received much praise. Bill Direen, for example, observes that "many poems . . . ring like the reassuring chime of crystal glass or with the resonance of a perfectly fired bell . . . They reveal the hidden." (Listener, 17 June 1995, p. 52). Jenny is married to fellow poet Gregory O'Brien. With Greg, she co-edited My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems (1996), and also with Greg, as well as Mark Williams, she edited An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English (1997), which won the 1997 Montana Book Award for Poetry.
In 2001 Jenny was awarded the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Fellowship. The poems in her collection, Summer, record the experiences of the poet and her family through the Mediterranean summer in Menton in 2002. In 2005 Jenny became the 5th Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate during which time she wrote Mrs Winter’s Jump, a Godwit book for Random House which was launched in June 2007.
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