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Tag: Aotearoa

Review: Vā (edited by Sisilia Eteuati and Lani Young

A rich series of stories and poems from the Pacific Ocean.

Aotearoa, Contemporary, Fiction, Fiji, Hawai’i, New Zealand, Pacific, Poetry, Samoa, Short stories, Vanuatu

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A new Alexis Wright book is something to anticipate feverishly and with a little trepidation. Her latest, vast novel is her most intimidating yet, a 700-page “open-wound theatre” about the town of Praiseworthy on the Gulf country of northern Australia.

I read this amazing book a little while ago, and it’s had a powerful impact on the way I look and listen to the world around me. It’s a beautiful history of family and country that richly evokes Debra Dank’s Gudanji land in the dust and gravel country of the south-western Gulf Of Carpentaria.

This retelling of E. M. Forster’s Maurice is a fast-paced, horny exercise in wish fulfilment, told from the perspective of Maurice’s lover Alec.

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