{"product_id":"sedition-poems","title":"Sedition: Poems","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards; \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMARY AND PETER BIGGS AWARD FOR POETRY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nzbookawards.nz\/Images\/Assets\/44767\/1\/Poetry%20Sampler.pdf\" title=\"Ockhams Sampler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eClick here to visit the Ockhams Sampler; Extracts from the finalist books in the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nzbookawards.nz\/new-zealand-book-awards\/2023-awards\/shortlist\/\" title=\"Ockham 2023 Shortlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eClick here to visit the Ockham NZ Book Awards 2023 Shortlist\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSedition is Anahera's long-awaited first full-length volume of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eComprising a significant body of previously unpublished work, Sedition represents a vital political intervention in the poetic landscape of Aotearoa. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThe work ranges and rages through generations, taking in a mother's anguish and a daughter's hunger for justice. Born of lava, this poetry responds to and resists the commodification of culture and whenua, and the perversity of everyday acts of neocolonisation, \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThe waves and howls of Sedition elevate the modern individual and collective experience to the level of the epic. This is poetry that experiences trauma and yet takes the deep time required to untangle its threads. Anahera weaves life anew in a pattern that honours trauma but does not replicate its power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eAnahera’s acclaimed poetry, short stories, essays and reviews have been published and anthologised nationally and internationally for nearly two decades. Her work is taught in universities and schools, and she herself is a teacher, mentor and a highly-respected literary reviewer and commentator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoetry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback, dimensions ‏ : ‎ 25.5cm x 14.6cm x 0.8cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnahera Gildea\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taraheke - Bushlawyer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42565249990806,"sku":"9780473621100","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/4978\/0118\/products\/Seditionnew2048px_1206x_4f0aeb21-d77f-4318-915e-9268c5c66d81.jpg?v=1682236340","url":"https:\/\/www.tawabooksandpost.co.nz\/products\/sedition-poems","provider":"Tawa Books \u0026 Post","version":"1.0","type":"link"}