Summary
Winner, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2026, Poetry
KONTRA enacts a poetics of clashing decadences, testing the tightrope between ‘feminine’ goodness and deviance, desire and refusal, reverence and repulsion. It casts a female gaze on the kontrabida—a Filipina soap opera villain stuck in a rise-and-fall cycle. The poet reimagines the kontrabida as a figure driven not by revenge, but by wild desire. Oscillating in and out of character, Andrada na…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923106475 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1923106473 |
| Author: | Eunice Andrada |
| Publisher: | Giramondo Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Giramondo Publishing Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 116g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 210mm x 148mm |
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About The Author
Eunice Andrada
Eunice Andrada is a poet and educator. Her first collection Flood Damages (Giramondo, 2018) won the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for both the Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry and the Dame Mary Gilmore Award. Her second poetry collection TAKE CARE (2021) was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, the Stella Prize, the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, and two NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. KONTRA is her third poetry collection with Giramondo.
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