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Eunice Andrada

Eunice Andrada is a poet and educator. Her first poetry collection Flood Damages (Giramondo Publishing 2018) won the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry and the Dame Mary Gilmore Award. TAKE CARE (Giramondo Publishing 2021) is her second poetry collection, and was shortlisted for The Stella Prize, the Multicultural NSW Award and the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. Born and raised in the Philippines, she currently lives and writes on unceded Gadigal Land.

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Andrada’s verse carries us beyond flood, grief, deportation and dictatorship – from visceral oppression into political consciousness.

Michelle Cahill

Titles

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

Eunice Andrada

72 pages
Paperback, 21 x 14.8 cm
Published September 2021
ISBN 9781925818796

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.

Flood Damages

Eunice Andrada

80 pages
Paperback, 21 x 14.8 cm
Published May 2018
ISBN 9781925336665

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.

Videos

Eunice Andrada reads ‘Kundiman’, a poem from her collection, TAKE CARE.