The Lustre Jug
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Lustre Jug
By (Author) Bernadette Hall
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Victoria University Press
17th July 2009
New Zealand
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
821.2
Short-listed for New Zealand Post Book Awards: Poetry 2010
Physical Properties
Paperback
88
Description
In 2007 Bernadette Hall spent six months in Ireland, not far from Blarney, on the Rathcoola Fellowship. The poems in this collection arise from that experience. With light-heartedness and daring, they track between dualities: the North and the South in Ireland; the rain-washed skies of Donoughmore, Co. Cork and the Queensland rainforest. Between national and personal histories. As for poetry, what is it to be, an axe or a peace offering
Author Bio
Bernadette Hall is an award-winning poet who lives in North Canterbury. Her work has been included most recently in Twenty Contemporary New Zealand Poets, edited by Andrew Johnston and Robyn Marsack (VUP/Carcanet, 2009). She is a founding staff member of The Hagley Writers' Institute in Christchurch.
