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What does it mean to be a good Pacific woman? Audrey doesn’t care.
In her third collection a - wake - (e)nd, acclaimed poet Audrey Brown-Pereira turns a lens to her own life, transforming a mid-life crisis into opportunity. Set against an unkind pandemic, a Pacific evolving revolving, and a deteriorating environment, truth and lies play side-by-side in a book that breaks convention in joyful, energetic verse. By pulling at the threads of her life, the narrator finds herself asserting independence, tasting delicious freedom … and wanting more.
"These poems dance in liminal spaces, resist devolution, and circumnavigate conventions. A captivating exploration of transformation and self-design.” - Serie Barford, Author of Sleeping with Stones (Anahera Press)
Cover artwork by Serene Hodgman
What does it mean to be a good Pacific woman? Audrey doesn’t care.
In her third collection a - wake - (e)nd, acclaimed poet Audrey Brown-Pereira turns a lens to her own life, transforming a mid-life crisis into opportunity. Set against an unkind pandemic, a Pacific evolving revolving, and a deteriorating environment, truth and lies play side-by-side in a book that breaks convention in joyful, energetic verse. By pulling at the threads of her life, the narrator finds herself asserting independence, tasting delicious freedom … and wanting more.
"These poems dance in liminal spaces, resist devolution, and circumnavigate conventions. A captivating exploration of transformation and self-design.” - Serie Barford, Author of Sleeping with Stones (Anahera Press)
Cover artwork by Serene Hodgman
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ISBN - 9780473674113