Name Jenny Bornholdt | Role Poet | |
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Education Victoria University of Wellington Books A Book Is a Book, The Rocky Shore, The Hill of Wool, Mrs Winter's Jump, Summer | ||
Being a Poet
Jennifer Mary Bornholdt (born 1 November 1960) is a New Zealand poet and anthologist.
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Biography
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.
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 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.
Petry
Bornholdt's poetry has been published in a number of volumes: