Eunice Andrada

In KONTRA, the award-winning collection by Filipina-Australian poet Eunice Andrada, characters reckon with the constraints of the past in order to claim a future of their own making. The collection enacts a poetics of clashing decadences, testing the tightrope between ‘feminine’ goodness and deviance, desire and refusal, reverence and repulsion.

To celebrate the publication of Eunice Andrada’s new poetry collection, TAKE CARE, we’re offering a special bundle that includes this new release along with her Anne Elder Award-winning collection Flood Damages (2018). Normally valued at $48, this bundle is offered at $40 (postage is free within Australia).

TAKE CARE 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.

In Flood Damages, Eunice Andrada explores the open wounds of colonial occupation, diaspora and inheritance. Through the figure of a young Filipina-Australian woman whose family has been irreparably damaged by deportation, violence and illness, events both political and personal are felt most keenly in and through the body – ‘your blood sings of the scattered histories/ that left you here’. A poet and performance artist, Andrada combines the passionate intensity of voice, image and rhythms of prayer to affirm the brown female body as a site of vulnerability and power.