{"title":"Eunice Andrada","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEunice Andrada\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts narratives that delve into contemporary social landscapes, blending sharp insight with poignant storytelling. Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eFlood Damages\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKONTRA\u003c\/em\u003e, explore themes of resilience and cultural identity within dynamic urban settings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a thoughtful engagement with arts and culture, where personal and collective experiences intertwine. Through evocative prose, Eunice Andrada invites reflection on the complexities of modern life and community.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kontra-by-eunice-andrada-9781923106475","title":"KONTRA","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKONTRA\u003c\/i\u003e enacts a poetics of clashing decadences, testing the tightrope between 'feminine' goodness and deviance, desire and refusal, reverence and repulsion. It casts a female gaze on the \u003ci\u003ekontrabida\u003c\/i\u003e—a Filipina soap opera villain stuck in a rise-and-fall cycle. The poet reimagines the kontrabida as a figure driven not by revenge, but by wild desire. Oscillating in and out of character, Andrada navigates the tension between poet and persona. Alongside the shapeshifting, spectral force of the kontrabida, the poet invokes a chorus of voices to trace a lineage of opposition and the alternate futures it holds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection is in the form of a narrative triptych. The opening section \u003ci\u003e'KONTRA'\u003c\/i\u003e explores the power and fate of the oppositional figure. In \u003ci\u003e'OPER'\u003c\/i\u003e, two characters speak alongside each other to excise painful histories of domination and sexual assault; which moves us forward to the final section \u003ci\u003e'BIDA'\u003c\/i\u003e, to a more genuine, queer persona that is free from domination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Eunice Andrada:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Brilliant and devastating,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eTAKE CARE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e is no doubt one of the most important poetry releases in years, weaving complex themes with intelligence and innovation of form...A poet whose courage is necessary and whose words we all need.' — Ellen van Neerven\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTAKE CARE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eis the live wire of poetry that does not spare us...each poem both a surrender and a severing, each page an urgent demand we do not look away from violence, from its banal to its most grotesque, and each word filled with as much purpose and energy as it is with tenderness and care.' — Sara Saleh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079173783788,"sku":"9781923106475","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2a1db360623a48279fada58c9179847b.jpg?v=1765236431"},{"product_id":"take-care-by-eunice-andrada-9781925818796","title":"TAKE CARE","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShortlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2022: Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry \u0026amp; Multicultural NSW Award\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTAKE CARE\u003c\/em\u003e explores what it means to survive within systems not designed for tenderness. Bound in personal testimony, the poems situate the act of rape within the machinery of imperialism, where human and non-human bodies, lands, and waters are violated to uphold colonial powers. Andrada explores the magnitude of rape culture in the everyday: from justice systems that dehumanise survivors, to exploitative care industries that deny Filipina workers their agency, to nationalist monuments that erase the sexual violence of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnsparing in their interrogation of the gendered, racialised labour of care, the poems flow to a radical, liberatory syntax. Physical and online terrain meld into a surreal ecosystem of speakers, creatures, and excavated histories. Brimming with incantatory power, Andrada's verses move between breathless candour and seething restraint as they navigate memory and possibility. Piercing the heart of our cultural crisis, these poems are salves, offerings, and warnings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47341188088044,"sku":"9781925818796","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18513293482873.jpg?v=1772185679"},{"product_id":"flood-damages-by-eunice-andrada-9781925336665","title":"Flood Damages","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePowerful first collection by acclaimed Filipina Australian performance poet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFlood Damages\u003c\/em\u003e, Andrada explores themes associated with immigration and inheritance through the figure of a young Australian Filipina woman, whose family has been irreparably damaged by deportation, violence, and illness. The wounds inflicted by these events, both political and personal, are felt most keenly in and through her body: \"your blood sings of the scattered histories that left you here\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a dramatic use of language influenced by the rhythms of prayer, Andrada expresses pain and anger with passionate intensity. As a performance poet, she combines the theatrical qualities of voice and image in this, her first published collection, affirming the female body as a site of vulnerability and power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455563120876,"sku":"9781925336665","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71JHGXRvGFL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774783365"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/eunice-andrada.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}