Wednesday, June 22, 2016

New book by Tusiata Avia

Exciting news! The Janet Frame Literary Trust's 2013 Poetry Award recipient Tusiata Avia has launched a new book. Powerful work as ever:

"Fale Aitu | Spirit House is a dreamworld that not only portrays strong and assured voices, but also explores the whispers of quieter ghosts. With Tusiata Avia’s brilliant language, this dreamworld becomes a landscape that is both quietly eerie and beautiful." We <3 Books, (Booksellers NZ)


"Tusiata Avia is an essential voice in New Zealand and Pasifika literature. In her fearless new collection, she weaves together the voices of the living and dead, the past and the present in poems that are confessional and confrontational, gentle and funny. Speaking from Samoa, Christchurch, Gaza and New York, she combines stories from myth and the everyday, never shying away from pain or wonder."
Booknotes Unbound (NZ Book Council)

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