{"product_id":"9780864734242","title":"Settler Dreaming","description":"An exquisite book featuring a set of drawings by Dunedin artist Kathryn Madill, this landmark in recent New Zealand poetry publishing is Bernadette Hall’s fifth collection and solidifies her reputation as one of the most distinctive poetic voices to have emerged in recent years. Throughout her work, the themes of secular and religious love and the transporting passion of writing are strongly felt and extended by a deepening political engagement with the history and the possibilities inherent in New Zealand.\u003cp\u003eBernadette Hall is the author of four previous collections, including \u003ci\u003eThe Persistent Levitator\u003c\/i\u003e (shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards in 1995) and \u003ci\u003eStill Talking,\u003c\/i\u003e as well as plays and musicals. She was the 1996 Burns Fellow at Otago University. She lives in Christchurch, New Zealand.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Victoria University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022264385776,"sku":"9780864734242","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780864734242_p0.jpg?v=1763834480","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780864734242","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}