Jenny Boult
Australian Writer, Poet (1951–2005)
Jenny Boult (8 October 1951 – 1 November 2005), also known as MML Bliss, was an Australian poet, playwright, and editor.
Early life and education
Jennifer Boult was born in Warwickshire, England, in 1951, migrating to Western Australia with her family in 1967. Her birth family consisted of mother Florence Mary (Molly) Boult (maiden name Elliot), father Leslie Dean Boult, younger brother Jeremy Dean Boult Jr and younger sister Christine Anne Boult.
Boult attended Applecross Senior High School in Perth, matriculating in 1968, and won a Commonwealth Scholarship to the University of Western Australia.
Career
Boult lived for a time in Sydney and Melbourne before returning to Perth with her infant son, then moved to Adelaide with Harry Bardwell and her son Daniel in 1977. She was instrumental in setting up the Friendly Street Poets in Adelaide at the Box Factory in 1975, and lived in McLaren St for many years before moving to Norwood. She was both South Australia and National Secretary of the Poets Union until 1983.
She was a member of the Women's Art Movement in Adelaide.
In 1986 she was Writer in Residence at the Adelaide Festival Centre and was awarded a Senior Writer's Fellowship by the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.
In 1994 she moved to the small, historic tin mining town of Derby, Tasmania, with her long-time friend and partner Tim Smith.
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