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Ponies, The

Hall, Bernadette

The poems in this collection range from the hazardous beauty of Antarctica — Hall spent two weeks there on an Antarctica New Zealand fellowship in 2004 — to the urban nightmare of London, July 7, 2005 and from love in the 60s to Wellington’s lively contemporary scene.‘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.

The Ponies...is concerned with the unsettlement of one's view of things. In the Antarctica poems Hall takes the voice of previous explorers to demonstrate that the "hazardous beauty" exists more as a site for the exploration of an inner world than a physical reality. It's a quality of intimacy that the poems share with the rest of the collection — Isabel Haarhaus New Zealand Herald.

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