Jenny Bornholdt Photo: Robert Cross
Poet Jenny Bornholdt's new book A Garden is a Long Time weaves her words with the life and photographic art of Annemarie Hope-Cross, who died last year.
Hope-Cross studied photogenic drawing, wet and dry plate collodion and the daguerreotype technique at the Fox Talbot Museum in the UK, and used these early photographic processes and materials in her work.
The combination of these historic techniques with contemporary subjects created images both eerie and radiant.
Jenny Bornholdt is the author of several poetry collections including The Rocky Shore (Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry, 2009), Selected Poems (2016), and Lost and Somewhere Else (2019). In 2005 she became the fifth Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate, and in 2013 she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature.
Annemarie Hope-Cross - Feathers and Ferns, from 'Book Marks' series 2013, Photo: © Eric Schusser
