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100 _aAvia, Tusiata,
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245 1 4 _aThe savage coloniser book /
_cTusiata Avia.
260 _aWellington, New Zealand :
_bVictoria University of Wellington Press,
_c2020.
300 _a96 pages ;
_c21 cm
500 _aPoems.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _aSavage Coloniser Pantoum -- 250th anniversary of James Cook's arrival in New Zealand -- Listening to Tame -- Jacinda Ardern goes to the Pacific Forum in Tuvalu and my family colonises her house -- Burnt Australia fair -- The Pacific solution -- Fucking St. Barbara (i) -- Fucking St. Barbara (ii) -- Poly kidz r coming -- Martin Luther King Day -- BLM -- Massacre -- Man in the wheelchair -- White power -- We talk about sex poems -- I am in hospital after another seizure -- Ma'i maliu (i) -- Ma'i maliu (ii) -- Every seizure a dating opportunity -- Environmental sex -- Digital sex -- Jason -- Tyrone -- Yeah, he's violent -- Jealousy (i) -- Jealousy (ii) -- FafSwag Spell (i) -- FafSwag Spell (ii) -- FafSwag Spell (iii) -- Blacking out the Va (i) -- Blacking out the Va (ii) -- Blacking out the Va (iii) -- Covid in the time of Primeminiscinda -- How to get an abortion -- Prayer -- Not horror porn -- Race riot -- Ten Eighty -- Unity (ii) -- How to be in a room full of white people -- Some notes for critics.
520 _a"Kneel like a prayer full of lynching / This is my God-given white" 'Savage is as savage does. And we're all implicated. Avia breaks the colonial lens wide open. We peer through its poetic shards and see a savage world - outside, inside. With characteristic savage and stylish wit, Avia holds the word-blade to our necks and presses with a relentless grace. At the end, you'll feel your pulse anew.' --Selina Tusitala Marsh, New Zealand Poet Laureate 2017-19. The voices of Tusiata Avia are infinite. She ranges from vulnerable to forbidding to celebratory with forms including pantoums, prayers and invocations. And in this electrifying new work, she gathers all the power of her voice to speak directly into histories of violence. Avia addresses James Cook in fury. She unravels the 2019 Christchurch massacre, walking us back to the beginning. She describes the contortions we make to avoid blame. And she locates the many voices that offer hope. The Savage Coloniser Book is a personal and political reckoning. As it holds history accountable, it rises in power. 'A welcome autopsy of colonisers in past and present times, penned with a scalpel's precision, the inspection of parts, minced down to the floor. Sit in your blood-splattered apron and feel as the verdict is read.' --Ali Cobby Eckermann 'Tusiata Avia's poetry . . . is a full-body plunge in winter seas. It's breathtaking, skin tingling and teeth rattling. I feel alive. It's as real to me as a salt-crested wave smashing me full in the face until I am nothing but that moment . . . Exhilaration, pain, vulnerability, joy, cheeky confidence and acknowledgement. But what I don't feel is lonely.' --Nafanua Kersel, The Hook. Tusiata Avia is an acclaimed poet, performer and children's writer. Her previous poetry collections are Wild Dogs Under My Skirt (2004; also staged as a theatre show, most recently Off-Broadway, winning the 2019 Outstanding Production of the Year), Bloodclot (2009) and the Ockham-shortlisted Fale Aitu=Spirit House (2016). Tusiata has held the Fulbright Pacific Writer's Fellowship at the University of Hawai'i in 2005 and the Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at University of Canterbury in 2010. She was the 2013 recipient of the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award, and in 2020 was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to poetry and the arts.
650 0 _aNew Zealand poetry
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655 4 _aNew Zealand poetry
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