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'I can see how I carry Yiayia’s war
in the ample dunes of my belly,
the moment she smelt the guns,
she pinched the candle’s wick,
gathered the startled shadows of her children,
flung my baby-mother onto her back
and sprinted towards the neutral moon—'
'Migration and the memories of women’s traditions are woven throughout these poems. Angela Costi brings the world of Cyprus to Australia. Her mother encounters animosity on Melbourne’s trams as Angela learns to thread words in ways that echo her grandmother’s embroidery. Here are poems that sing their way across the seas and map histories.'
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Bold yet Subtle : Vasilka Pateras Reviews ‘An Embroidery of Old Maps and New’ by Angela Costi
2021
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— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , 5 5eptember no. 32 2021;
— Review of An Embroidery of Old Maps and New 2021 selected work poetry'There is a majesty about Angela Costi’s new poetry collection, An Embroidery of Old Maps and New, in a weave of words that elevates the simple into an artful epic of beauty, dignity and a persistent quest for justice. At the heart of this collection is the question of legacy – a dedication to her mother Eleni and grandmothers who are each background and foreground, as practitioners of the Cypriot lace-making tradition Lefkarathika, to a detailed exploration of the human condition. The collection poses the question of how does a woman poet immersed in two worlds, as the Greek-Cypriot ‘migrant daughter’, divided by hemispheres lay her ideas about the world as witness, inheritor and storyteller?' (Introduction)
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The Threads of Inheritance : Berni M Janssen Launches ‘An Embroidery of Old Maps and New’ by Angela Costi
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , March no. 31 2021;
— Review of An Embroidery of Old Maps and New 2021 selected work poetry -
Online Launch Set for Angela Costi’s Latest Collection of Poetry
2021
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— Appears in: Neos Kosmos , April 2021;
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The Threads of Inheritance : Berni M Janssen Launches ‘An Embroidery of Old Maps and New’ by Angela Costi
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , March no. 31 2021;
— Review of An Embroidery of Old Maps and New 2021 selected work poetry -
Bold yet Subtle : Vasilka Pateras Reviews ‘An Embroidery of Old Maps and New’ by Angela Costi
2021
single work
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , 5 5eptember no. 32 2021;
— Review of An Embroidery of Old Maps and New 2021 selected work poetry'There is a majesty about Angela Costi’s new poetry collection, An Embroidery of Old Maps and New, in a weave of words that elevates the simple into an artful epic of beauty, dignity and a persistent quest for justice. At the heart of this collection is the question of legacy – a dedication to her mother Eleni and grandmothers who are each background and foreground, as practitioners of the Cypriot lace-making tradition Lefkarathika, to a detailed exploration of the human condition. The collection poses the question of how does a woman poet immersed in two worlds, as the Greek-Cypriot ‘migrant daughter’, divided by hemispheres lay her ideas about the world as witness, inheritor and storyteller?' (Introduction)
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Online Launch Set for Angela Costi’s Latest Collection of Poetry
2021
single work
column
— Appears in: Neos Kosmos , April 2021;
