TAKE CARE
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Praise for TAKE CARE
Brilliant and devastating, TAKE CARE is no doubt one of the most important poetry releases in years, weaving complex themes with intelligence and innovation of form. Eunice Andrada honours women who care but are uncared for, exemplifying the role of rage to echo ancestral stories and to speak against empire. With imagery reminiscent of an anti-racist feminist horror movie, Andrada pushes poetry to the extremes in a way that is ultimately empowering to those of us who are racialised, gendered, and violated as part of a horror that's everyday. Andrada is a poet whose courage is necessary and whose words we all need. I can’t stop thinking about this book.
— Ellen van Neerven, author of Throat
TAKE CARE is the live wire of poetry that does not spare us…each poem both a surrender and a severing, each page an urgent demand we do not look away from violence, from its banal to its most grotesque, and each word filled with as much purpose and energy as it is with tenderness and care. Andrada’s writing is a reckoning – it takes us as a society where we need to go, whether we come willingly or not.
— Sara Saleh, author of Wasting the Milk in the Summer
Eunice Andrada has written a sophisticated and brutal collection in TAKE CARE. These poems are quicksand—they shapeshift and draw you close to forms which are both familiar and ground-breaking. Andrada deftly dissects fragmented moments and memories and recasts them into precise stories which pierce rape, colonisation and climate change. From disturbing to triumphant, rather than haunting, TAKE CARE urgently compels us to reimagine a new way of being in the world.
— Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Poet, Editor & Cultural Producer