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Goddess Muscle

Hardback

Main Details

Title Goddess Muscle
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Karlo Mila
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:220
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 172
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9781775506355
ClassificationsDewey:821.92
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Huia Publishers
Imprint Huia Publishers
NZ Release Date 25 January 2021
Publication Country New Zealand

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.

Reviews

It'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.