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Goddess Muscle
Hardback
Main Details
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Goddess Muscle
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Karlo Mila
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:220 | Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 172 |
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Category/Genre | Poetry by individual poets |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781775506355
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Classifications | Dewey:821.92 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Huia Publishers
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Imprint |
Huia Publishers
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NZ Release Date |
25 January 2021 |
Publication Country |
New Zealand
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Description
This long-awaited poetry collection from award-winning Pasifika poet Karlo Mila spans work written over a decade. The poems are both personal and political. They trace the effect of defining issues such as racism, poverty, violence, climate change and power on Pasifika peoples, Aotearoa and beyond. They also focus on the internal and micro issues - the ending of a marriage, the hope of new relationships, and the daily politics of being a partner, woman and mother. The collection meditates on love and relationships and explores identity, culture, community and belonging with a voice that does not shy away from the difficult.
Author Biography
Dr Karlo Mila is a New Zealand-born poet of Tongan and Pakeha descent with ancestral connections to Samoa. She is currently Programme Director of Mana Moana, Leadership New Zealand. This leadership programme is based on her postdoctoral research on harnessing indigenous language and ancestral knowledge from the Pacific to use in contemporary leadership contexts. Karlo received an MNZM in 2019 for services to the Pacific community and as a poet, received a Creative New Zealand Contemporary Pacific Artist Award in 2016, and was selected for a Creative New Zealand Fulbright Pacific Writer's Residency in Hawaii in 2015.
ReviewsIt's a collection about empowerment, of a voice that won't dim for others, and a voice that beyond all else relies on its own Goddess Muscle through it all.' Lana Lopesi, Academy of New Zealand Literature.
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