New Zealand playwright and poet
Bernadette Hall MNZM (born 1945) is a New Zealand playwright and poet.
Biography
Hall was born in 1945 in Alexandra, New Zealand. She was raised in what she describes as "a small-city Catholic community that was proud, theatrical and pretty much enclosed."[1] After a career as a teacher of Latin and classical studies, she started writing full-time in her forties.[2] She has held residencies at both Canterbury University and Victoria University[3] and is widely published.[1][4][5] She spent 10 years as the editor of Takahe magazine and five as the poetry editor of The Press, Christchurch's main daily newspaper.[5]
Hall's poetry collection The Lustre Jug was a finalist in the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards.[6]
She is the patron of Hagley Writers' Institute.[7]
Works
Plays
- Glad and the Angels (1992)[5]
- The Clothesline (1993)[8]
- The Girl Who Sings Waterfalls (1992)[8]
Poetry collections
- Heartwood (Caxton Press, Christchurch, 1989)[9]
- of Elephants etc. (Untold Press, 1990)
- The Persistent Levitator (Victoria University Press, 1994)
- Still Talking (Victoria University Press, 1997)
- Settler Dreaming (Victoria University Press, 2001)
- The Merino Princess: Selected Poems (Victoria University Press, 2004)
- The Ponies (Victoria University Press, 2007)
- The Lustre Jug (Victoria University Press, 2009)
- Life & Customs (Victoria University Press, 2014)
Awards and honours
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