Black Sugarcane
$24.00
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2025
Summary
Black Sugarcane is a landmark debut collection by Nafanua Purcell Kersel. Restless in form and address, these engaging and generous poems ricochet from light to dark, quiet to loud, calm to violence. We meet a loved twin sister as she dives towards the Sacred Centre, a grandmother who knows everything by heart, a shrugging office clerk, and Nafanua herself, an enigmatic shapeshifter.
At the heart of Black Sugarcane is a sequence of erasure poems arising from the seminal essay ‘In Sear…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776922222 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1776922220 |
| Author: | Nafanua Purcell Kersel |
| Publisher: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Imprint: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 170mm |
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About The Author
Nafanua Purcell Kersel
Nafanua Purcell Kersel (Satupa’itea, Falealupo, Aleipata, Tuaefu) is a writer, poet and performer who was born in Samoa and raised in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa. Her poetry has been widely published. She has an MA from the IIML and won the 2022 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry for Black Sugarcane. She lives in Te Matau-a-Maui Hawke’s Bay.
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