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Eunice Andrada Eunice Andrada i(8882713 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Filipina
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1 4 y separately published work icon Take Care Eunice Andrada , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2021 22958120 2021 selected work poetry

'TAKE CARE explores what it means to survive within systems not designed for tenderness. Bound in personal testimony, the poems situate the act of rape within the machinery of imperialism, where human and non-human bodies, lands, and waters are violated to uphold colonial powers. Andrada explores the magnitude of rape culture in the everyday: from justice systems that dehumanise survivors, to exploitative care industries that deny Filipina workers their agency, to nationalist monuments that erase the sexual violence of war.

'Unsparing in their interrogation of the gendered, racialised labour of care, the poems flow to a radical, liberatory syntax. Physical and online terrain meld into a surreal ecosystem of speakers, creatures, and excavated histories. Brimming with incantatory power, Andrada’s verses move between breathless candour and seething restraint as they navigate memory and possibility. Piercing the heart of our cultural crisis, these poems are salves, offerings, and warnings.'

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1 The Yield i "When I read there were 170 women", Eunice Andrada , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 433 2021; (p. 30)
1 Tribute to the Unseen i "my people, my people-", Eunice Andrada , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Peril : An Asian-Australian Journal , no. 45 2021;
1 Second Coming i "I am off the coast of an island eight hours from my", Eunice Andrada , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 10 no. 2 2021; (p. 46-47)
1 The Poem Begins with a Breathing Reef i "a new cemetery blooms", Eunice Andrada , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Writing Water 2020;
1 Sanctuary i "clusters of cod float", Eunice Andrada , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Writing Water 2020;
1 Answer i "during the crescendo of the blaze", Eunice Andrada , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Writing Water 2020;
1 y separately published work icon Writing Water : Rain River Reef Eunice Andrada (editor), Darlinghurst : The Red Room Company , 2020 21427012 2020 anthology poetry

'From rain, rivers and reefs to tidal pools and coastal shelves, the Writing Water chapbook is a bespoke collection of 24 poems, written by commissioned and public poets about their relationship with our earth's most precious resource, water. Discover new poems by Eunice Andrada, Tony Birch, Luke Davies, Georgina Reid, JV Birch, Esther Ottaway and others.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 Harbour i "Later, the doctor says to Ma", Eunice Andrada , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: In Your Hands 2020; (p. 14)
1 Kulani i "first water of morning", Eunice Andrada , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry in Lockdown 2020;
1 y separately published work icon Australian Poetry Journal Modern Elegy vol. 10 no. 1 Ellen van Neerven (editor), David McCooey (editor), Felicity Plunkett (editor), Eunice Andrada (editor), 2020 20794583 2020 periodical issue poetry 'In September 2019, Jacinta Le Plastrier invited me, Eunice, David and Felicity to be co-editors of this Australian Poetry Journal ‘modern elegy’ issue. At that time, I was not to know what 2020 would bring, or what it would be like to ask poets to write an elegy in 2020. The bushfires last summer should have been prevented, and Country should have been spared. But instead of giving First Nations people autonomy of their land and ability to perform their culture, science and caring for Country, the government is obsessed with continuing an extractive colonisation that will continue to kill us and other living beings we are in kinship with.' (Ellen van Neerven, Foreword 1, Introduction)
1 Nature Heals Itself i "elephants guzzle a stash of corn wine and snore on a field", Eunice Andrada , 2020 poetry
— Appears in: Ellen Van Neerven and Eunice Andrada 2020;
1 y separately published work icon Ellen Van Neerven and Eunice Andrada Ellen van Neerven (presenter), Eunice Andrada (presenter), 2020 19680718 2020 single work podcast 'For our first episode, Ellen van Neerven is joined by Eunice Andrada, a Filipina poet and educator. ' 
1 Instead of Finding Water i "I divine juice from a yellow stone", Eunice Andrada , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , September no. 43 2019; (p. 60-62) Australian Poetry Anthology 2020; (p. 59-60)
1 1 y separately published work icon Listen to Me Donna Abela , Eunice Andrada , Ali Cobby Eckermann , Alison Croggon , Candy Royalle , Ania Walwicz , Andree Greenwell (composer), Australia : Green Room Music , 2018 16638793 2018 anthology lyric/song

'‘Listen to Me’ is a collection of songs, words and music made in response to the current debate in Australia about gendered violence. It contains factual quotes, personal stories and originally commissioned lyrics by Donna Abela, Eunice Andrada, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Alison Croggon, Candy Royalle and Ania Walwicz, with Hilary Bell as the project dramaturg.' (Production summary)
1 To Speak Water i "is to pronounce one", Eunice Andrada , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 8 no. 2 2018; (p. 77)
1 Inglesera i "you ere warned", Eunice Andrada , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 26 2018; (p. 100-101)
1 A Series of Half-Truths on Drowning i "saltwater will lick you wounds willingly", Eunice Andrada , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2018; (p. 11)
1 Irhil i "honeyed", Eunice Andrada , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Peril : An Asian-Australian Journal , no. 33 2018;
1 And on the Eighth Day i "He teaches us how to mould cocks", Eunice Andrada , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Peril : An Asian-Australian Journal , no. 33 2018;

Author's note: This is part of a series of ekphrastic poems presented alongside ‘Hyphenated’ at The Substation. ‘And on the eighth day’ responds to Eugenia Lim’s ‘Artificial Islands (Interior Archipelago II)’.
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