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The Lustre Jug
Author(s): Bernadette Hall (Author)
- Publisher: Victoria University Press
- Publication Date: 17 July 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 88 pages
- ISBN-10: 0864736088
- ISBN-13: 9780864736086
Book Description
Evocative and beautiful, this anthology tracks between the dualities of the rain-washed skies of Donoughmore County, Cork, and the Queensland rainforest and its national and personal histories. Inspired by the poet’s experiences near Blarney in Ireland as well as her New Zealand homeland and family, the lighthearted yet daring verses reflect a questing, generous, civilized mind. The poetry ultimately succeeds by being tough-minded and wary.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The Lustre Jug is a warm, elegant little book. Hamesh Wyatt OTAGO DAILY TIMES Bernadette Hall’s poems are the work of a questing, generous, civilised mind, one that quite knows what its values are and says so in ways that are definingly unique. Vincent O’Sullivan Hall’s work succeeds by being ultimately tough-minded and wary. She sails up like the Flying Nun, a “persistent levitator” buoyed by her own lightness of being and her linguistic felicity. David Eggleton
About the Author
Bernadette Hall is a poet and a playwright and the author of Heartwood, Of Elephants, The Persistent Levitator, and Still Talking. Her play Glad and the Angels won the Aoraki Festival playwriting award. She was the 1996 Burns Fellow at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; the 2006 Victoria University Writer in Residence; and held the 2007 Rathcoola Residency in Donoughmore, Ireland. She is a founding staff member of the Hagley Writers’ Institute in Christchurch.
