It was quite a
big deal for Laureate Jenny Bornholdt
to be mentioned in Books
of the Year in the Times
Literary Supplement, London, at the end of last year.
The
poet/translator Michael Hofmann writes: In
The Rocky Shore (Victoria University Press), the New Zealander
Jenny Bornholdt talks to herself in six long, sinuous, casual, loopy poems
the way I don't think I've ever heard a poet talk before (James Schuyler and
Louis MacNeice come closer): low pressure, revealed purpose and unexpected
tenacity. Illness, children, the deaths of friends, malcontent plants and an
errant garden shed shuffle past as on a benign ghost train.
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Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
News from the Arts Foundation
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