\n<\/em><\/p>\n
Three Wishes<\/b><\/h4>\none of us can be the man who rides a Parthenon horse
\none can be the woman who runs across the ice at night like a silver fox
\none can take her painted heart out of its beautiful hand-crafted box
\n……………….<\/span>and set it up in a window in the main street of Port Chalmers<\/div>\n.<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a9 Bernadette Hall<\/div>\n\n—
\n<\/em><\/p>\nToday I continue my look at poems that, broadly speaking,\u00a0 address the “sea”, and am very pleased to bring you two short poems from Bernadette Hall.<\/p>\n
About The Poet:<\/span><\/h4>\n![\"Bernie](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bernie-Hall.jpg\")
<\/a>Bernadette Hall<\/b> is best known for her poetry but also writes short fiction. She is recognised as one of New Zealand\u2019s more distinctive poetic voices and received the highly prestigious Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry in 2015. <\/span><\/p>\nBernadette has also been an Artists in Antarctica Fellow in 2004, the 2006 Victoria University Writer in Residence, and in 2007 held the Rathcoola Residency in Donoughmore, Ireland. Bernadette\u2019s 2009 collection, The Lustre Jug,<\/b><\/i> (Victoria University Press), was a finalist for the 2010 NZ Post Book Award for Poetry. <\/span><\/p>\n To date, she has published eleven collections of poetry, the most recent being \u2018Maukatere, floating mountain\u2019<\/b><\/i> with artwork by Rachel O’Neill (Seraph Press, 2016). <\/span><\/p>\n![\"maukatere_floating-mountain\"](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Maukatere_Floating-Mountain-250x300.jpg\")
<\/a>In 2013, her edition of poems by the Christchurch writer, Lorna Staveley Anker, was published by Canterbury University Press. Titled \u2018The Judas Tree\u2019<\/b><\/i> it reveals Lorna Anker as New Zealand\u2019s first woman war poet with memories of both World Wars. The Dunedin composer Anthony Ritchie used seven of Bernadette\u2019s Stations of the Cross<\/i><\/b> poems in a symphony which premiered in Christchurch on the 22nd <\/sup>of February 2014 as a memorial to those who died and those who have suffered as a result of the February 22nd, 2011 earthquake.<\/span><\/p>\n\u2014<\/p>\n
Prior \u2018Sea\u2019 Poems include:<\/h4>\n
\u201cThe Sea\u201d by Tim Jones<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cDover Beach\u201d (Excerpt) by Matthew Arnold<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cBreathing You In\u201d by David Gregory<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWe are more than half water\u201d by Helen Rickerby<\/a><\/p>\nThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/a><\/p>\n
\none can be the woman who runs across the ice at night like a silver fox
\none can take her painted heart out of its beautiful hand-crafted box
\n……………….<\/span>and set it up in a window in the main street of Port Chalmers<\/div>\n
— Today I continue my look at poems that, broadly speaking,\u00a0 address the “sea”, and am very pleased to bring you two short poems from Bernadette Hall.<\/p>\n Bernadette has also been an Artists in Antarctica Fellow in 2004, the 2006 Victoria University Writer in Residence, and in 2007 held the Rathcoola Residency in Donoughmore, Ireland. Bernadette\u2019s 2009 collection, The Lustre Jug,<\/b><\/i> (Victoria University Press), was a finalist for the 2010 NZ Post Book Award for Poetry. <\/span><\/p>\n To date, she has published eleven collections of poetry, the most recent being \u2018Maukatere, floating mountain\u2019<\/b><\/i> with artwork by Rachel O’Neill (Seraph Press, 2016). <\/span><\/p>\n \u2014<\/p>\n \u201cThe Sea\u201d by Tim Jones<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cDover Beach\u201d (Excerpt) by Matthew Arnold<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cBreathing You In\u201d by David Gregory<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe are more than half water\u201d by Helen Rickerby<\/a><\/p>\n The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/em><\/p>\nAbout The Poet:<\/span><\/h4>\n
<\/a>Bernadette Hall<\/b> is best known for her poetry but also writes short fiction. She is recognised as one of New Zealand\u2019s more distinctive poetic voices and received the highly prestigious Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry in 2015. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>In 2013, her edition of poems by the Christchurch writer, Lorna Staveley Anker, was published by Canterbury University Press. Titled \u2018The Judas Tree\u2019<\/b><\/i> it reveals Lorna Anker as New Zealand\u2019s first woman war poet with memories of both World Wars. The Dunedin composer Anthony Ritchie used seven of Bernadette\u2019s Stations of the Cross<\/i><\/b> poems in a symphony which premiered in Christchurch on the 22nd <\/sup>of February 2014 as a memorial to those who died and those who have suffered as a result of the February 22nd, 2011 earthquake.<\/span><\/p>\nPrior \u2018Sea\u2019 Poems include:<\/h4>\n