Bernadette Hall

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Publications and Biography  

• New Zealand Literature File at AU
• NZ Book Council Writer Files

Gallery

• A selection of book covers and comment by Bernadette Hall
• Drawings by Joanna Paul for Heartwood
• Images by Kathryn Madill from Settler Dreaming  

On-line works

From Heartwood (Caxton, 1989)

• Action Man
• Family Ties
• Constructing a Landscape
• Juliet’s Drawing
• Dionysus Sailing
• Iconoclast
• Lavandula Vera
• Plainsong II
• Lacework

From of Elephants etc (Untold, 1990)

• Mills & Boon
• I am in the Picture
• Mr & Mrs Bach
• Bacchante (NZETC/Sport 4)
• Hard Thoughts
• After Ariadne

From The Persistent Levitator (VUP, 1994)

• for David / The Sentence is Sexy
• As a Matter of Faith (Sport 6/NZETC)
• Drawing a Conclusion on a Paper Dart
• The Girl Who Sings Waterfalls (NZETC/Sport 9)
• The Silk (+ note)
• The Persistent Levitator
• English (Room 202) & 3 other points of view (NZETC/Sport 10)
• Panda Postcards To A Businessman In New York (NZETC/Sport 5)

From Still Talking (VUP, 1997)

• A Vision at Warrington Beach
• Lovesong (+ note)
• Ancestral Voices
• Burial Fragments
• The Thaw
• Poem in the Matukituki Valley
• Tomahawk Sonnets

From Settler Dreaming (VUP, 2001)

• Early Settler
• Singalong
• Waitara Canticle
• Famine
• Coming Home
• Erlich (NZETC/Sport 8)    
• Shelter-belt
• The Lay Sister (Best NZ Poems 2001)
• Bad Fish
• The Merino Princess

Bernadette Hall’s selected poems,The Merino Princess was published November 2004 by Victoria UP.

New poems

• Trilogy: Be Still and Know
• Mukluk
• Snap
• The Woolshed

Prose by Bernadette Hall

• Tiny Signals on Paper (NZETC/Sport 9)  
• Three Short Reviews: O’Brien/Brown, Cochrane/Were, Bilbrough/Sullivan (nzepc/Evening Post)
• Risky Business: Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde (nzepc/NZ Books)
• Bread for Isaiah: Joanna Margaret Paul (nzepc/brief 32)

About Bernadette Hall

• Vincent O’Sullivan, Launching The Merino Princess
• Charles Dawson, Review of Settler Dreaming (nzepc/Takahe)

Audio

From the Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive

• Lacework
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        hi-fi (mp3 : 460KB ) 
• Amica
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        hi-fi (mp3 : 740KB ) 
• The Lay Sister
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• Famine
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        hi-fi (mp3 : 230KB ) 
• Early Settler
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        hi-fi (mp3 : 610MB ) 

Sound files courtesy of Plains FM, Christchurch

• Tomahwak Sonnet 1
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        hi-fi (mp3 : 1.3MB ) 
• Tomahawk Sonnet 2
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        hi-fi (mp3 : 1.2MB ) 
• Mukluk
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        hi-fi (mp3 : 1.6MB ) 
• Snap
        lo-fi (rm : 430MB, streaming)
        hi-fi (mp3 : 1.6MB ) 

Links

• Victoria University Press  
• Kathryn Madill gallery
• Artists in Antarctica
  

credit: John A Hall

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Last updated 22 August, 2018