Maukatere: Floating Mountain by Bernadette Hall, with drawings by Rachel O'Neill
Maukatere: Floating Mountain is a single long poem sequence that explores and celebrates life below Maukatere (Mt Grey) in the Hurunui. The more experimental style is an exciting development for one of New Zealand’s most eminent poets and winner of the 2015 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement for poetry.
Maukatere features 10 exquisite drawings by Rachel O’Neill. It is published in a handsome hand-bound edition. The first hand-numbered edition has sold out (and even made it to the bestseller list!), but a second (un-numbered) edition is now available.
Bernadette Hall is one of New Zealand's leading poets. She has published 10 previous collections of poetry, including The Merino Princess: Selected Poems (VUP 2004) and, most recently, Life & Customs (VUP 2013).
Following a career as a high school teacher, she co-founded the Hagley Writers’ Institute in Christchurch. She now lives with her husband John in a renovated fisherman’s bach at Amberley Beach in the Hurunui, North Canterbury.
About the illustrator
Rachel O'Neill is a filmmaker, writer and artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa. She seeks out fresh ways to see and understand life and art. She strives to represent the humour, candour and strangeness at the heart of human experience. Her first poetry collection, One Human in Height, was published by Hue & Cry Press in 2013.
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Title: Maukatere: Floating Mountain Author: Bernadette Hall Illustrator: Rachel O'Neill Category: Poetry ISBN: 978-0-9941345-1-6 Format: Paperback, 210 mm (tall) x 177 mm (wide), 32 pages RRP: $25 Publication Date: May 2016 Trade price $13.04 Orders are ordinarily firm sale, but sale or return terms are available on request. Contact Helen Rickerby, managing editor, Seraph Press, PO Box 25239, Wellington 6146, New Zealand email: contact@seraphpress.co.nz phone: (04) 385 7119
