Jenny Bornholdt
Jennifer Mary Bornholdt MNZM (born November 1, 1960 in Lower Hutt ) is an award-winning New Zealand poet and editor of poetry anthologies.
life and work
Bornholdt was born in Lower Hutt not far from Wellington , where she spent her childhood and youth. She studied English and journalism and attended the Bill Manhire Institute of Literature at Victoria University in Wellington .
Bornholdt's early volumes of poetry, such as This Big Face (1988) and Moving House (1989), which are still strongly based on the unpretentious, richly pictorial, but often surprisingly profound style of the Manhire School, have already earned her many weighted reviews and, as later, an unusually broad reader response for poetry.
Bornholdt writes almost predominantly lyrical poems, which often have an autobiographical core and refer to supposedly ordinary or inconspicuous everyday experiences, to relationships with fellow human beings or to travel impressions and reflections. Her trips abroad led her to a. shortly after the fall of the Wall she went to Germany, where she followed up on the story of her ancestors who had emigrated from Schleswig-Holstein from the Kremper Marsch , to whom a long poem ('We will, we do ”) is dedicated. Spent 2002 Bornholdt as a fellow of the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship six months in Menton , southern France. The stay inspired her to write the volume of poetry Summer . In 2005 she was awarded the Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate .
In 2009 she received the Montana New Zealand Book Award for an anthology of six long poems entitled The Rocky Shore . In 2010 she was visiting writer at Victoria University in Wellington; the result of this stay was the poetry collection The Hill of Wool (2011). In 2016 a selection of her most important poems was published under the title Selected Poems . On the occasion of the publication of her collected works, the New Zealand poet Paula Green said:
“Bornholdt's poetry is characterized by understatement, calm and an enchanting reflection on the world, both internal and external. [...] Her poems spring from a wise and warm appreciation of the world, as if she were raising her hand to stop the daily hustle and bustle and allow us to see everything with restored attention. "
In 2014, Bornholdt was awarded membership of the New Zealand Order of Merit as part of the Queen's New Year's Awards, the New Year's Honors, for her special services to poetry.
Bornholdt also wrote two children's books, A Book is A Book (2013) and The Longest Breakfast (2017). She is married to the New Zealand poet Gregory O'Brien , with whom she published a highly acclaimed collection of New Zealand love poems in 2000, and who occasionally has cameo appearances in her lyrics .
Works
Books of poetry (selection)
- 1988: This Big Face
- 1989: Moving House
- 1991: Waiting Shelter
- 1995: How We Met
- 1997: Miss New Zealand:
- 2000: These Days
- 2003: Summer
- 2011: The Hill of Wool
- 2016: Selected Poems
Children's books
- 2013: A Book is a Book
- 2016: A book is a book. Sanssouci, Munich
- 2017: The Longest Breakfast
Editing
- Together 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
- As co-editor: Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English, Oxford University Press (1998), ISBN 978-0195583557
literature
- Paul Millar: Jenny Bornholdt. In: Roger Robinson, Nelson Wattie (Eds.): The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Oxford, New York, Auckland 1998, ISBN 0 19 558348 5 , p. 65.
- 'Jenny Bornholdt', In: Read NZ, Te Pou Muramura, https://www.read-nz.org/writer/bornholdt-jenny/
Individual evidence
- ^ The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature , p. 65
- ↑ | Read NZ. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
- ↑ | Read NZ. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bornholdt, Jenny |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bornholdt, Jennifer Mary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lower Hutt |