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Jenny Bornholdt (born
1 November 1960) is an award-winning
New Zealand poet and anthologist. Born in
Lower Hutt, she currently lives in
Wellington.
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 NZ 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.
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.
Books
Her 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
Editor
Co-editor, with Gregory O'Brien, My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems, Random House New Zealand (2000) ISBN-10: 0908877811, ISBN-13: 978-0908877812
Co-editor Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English
External References
New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre
New Zealand Book CouncilFurther Information
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