Jenny Boult

Jenny Boult (8 October 1951 – 1 November 2005), also known as MML Bliss, was an Australian poet, playwright, and editor.

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.

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.

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 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.

In 1999 Boult changed her name to Magenta Maria Loveday Bliss and wrote as MML Bliss.

MML Bliss lived for many years in Launceston and was President of the Tasmanian Poetry Festival.

She died in Launceston in 2005 after a long battle with throat cancer.

Works as Jenny Boult

Works as MML Bliss