Big Fat Brown Bitch, 9781776921294
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Defiant poems confront sorrow, fury: The Big Fat Brown Bitch arrives.
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Big Fat Brown Bitch

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  • Paperback

    112 pages

  • Release Date

    8 November 2023

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Summary

The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laughs, splits open. She is sitting in a garage in South Auckland with her two brothers and discussing the majestic architecture of atoms. She is playing an audio book of The Power of Positive Thinking at herself. She is jumping over the lazy dog. She is lying face down in the mud and doing an apology on behalf of us all. She is receiving an election-year visit and a death threat. She is strapped to the cross. She is turning into a werewolf. The Bi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781776921294
ISBN-10:1776921291
Author:Tusiata Avia
Publisher:Te Herenga Waka University Press
Imprint:Te Herenga Waka University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:112
Release Date:8 November 2023
Weight:180g
Dimensions:210mm x 160mm
About The Author

Tusiata Avia

Tusiata Avia’s previous poetry collections are Wild Dogs Under My Skirt (2004; also staged as a theatre show), Bloodclot (2009), the Ockham-shortlisted Fale Aitu | Spirit House (2016), and the Ockham-award-winning The Savage Coloniser Book (2020). Tusiata has held the Fulbright Pacific Writer’s Fellowship at the University of Hawai‘i in 2005 and the Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at University of Canterbury in 2010. She was the 2013 recipient of the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award, and in 2020 was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to poetry and the arts.

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