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SUMMARY:Book Launch | Giving Birth to My Father by Tusiata Avia
DESCRIPTION:Join us to launch a new book of poetry by the incredible Tusiata Avia.\n\n Saturday 15 November\, 5pm Space Academy: 371 St Asaph Street\, Christchurch Books will be for sale with thanks to Scorpio Books Kai and refreshments provided\nAbout the book\nGiving Birth to My Father is about learning to live with a loss that seems simply too heavy to bear. First\, Tusiata Avia tells the imagined story – the one of how things should go – followed by the story of what really happens. As her father travels through his last days and into the arms of his tupu’aga\, transformed\, the family gathers around him with their love and raw need\, and their suffering turns to storm clouds.\n\nFor Avia\, his death is a beginning. Parent and child have switched places as the river carries them downstream\, and she sees her father with new eyes. But this is also a time of not knowing to whom she belongs and where she will be welcome now.\n\nThis is an extraordinarily rich poetic work about grief and renewal that will rearrange its readers. Giving Birth to My Father takes in a world of family and memory\, including a sequence of poems about a much-loved brother as he faces a life-threatening injury. It is a book about ways of holding one another even after we are gone.\n\nAbout the author\nTusiata Avia is the award-winning author of Wild Dogs Under My Skirt (2004; also staged internationally)\, Bloodclot (2009)\, Fale Aitu | Spirit House (2016)\, The Savage Coloniser Book (2020; winner of the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry and also staged nationally) and Big Fat Brown Bitch (2023). Tusiata has held the Fulbright Pacific Writers 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. In 2023 she was given a Distinguished Alumni Award at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement.\n\n\nCover art: Pati Solomona Tyrell
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LOCATION:Space Academy\, 371 Saint Asaph Street\, Christchurch\, Canterbury\, 8011\, New Zealand
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