Jenny
Bornholdt to judge 2019 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award
Otago
University Press advisory Tuesday 5 March 2019
Individual
poems in the collection can have been previously published, but the collection
as a whole should be unpublished.
Entries
are accepted until 31 July 2019.
The
result will be announced in Landfall 238 (November 2019), and the winner
receives $10,000 and a year's subscription to Landfall. Otago University
Press has the right to publish the winning collection.
For
full entry details, and to learn more about Kathleen Grattan and the history of
the award, go to http://www.otago.ac.nz/press/landfall/awards/otago065466.html
The
judge for the 2019 award is Jenny Bornholdt, who has published ten books of
poems, the most recent of which is Selected Poems (VUP, 2016). She also
edited the 2018 anthology Short Poems of New Zealand (VUP).
Her
collection The Rocky Shore was made up of six long poems and won the
Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 2009. She is the co-editor of My
Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems and the Oxford Anthology of
New Zealand Poetry in English. Jenny’s poems have appeared on ceramics, on
a house, on paintings, in the foyer of a building and in letterpress books
alongside drawings and photographs. She has also written two children’s books.
Kāpiti poet Alison Glenny was the winner
of the 2017 Kathleen Grattan Award with ‘The Farewell
Tourist’, a poetry collection inspired by a visit
to Antarctica.
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