Book launch: KONTRA by Eunice Andrada
Schedule
Wed, 22 Oct, 2025 at 08:00 am
UTC+11:00Location
Sappho Books Cafe & Wine Bar | Pyrmont, NS
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Join us to celebrate the launch of KONTRA, the new book by the award-winning poet Eunice Andrada (author of TAKE CARE and Flood Damages), hailed as her ‘most assured and impressive collection yet: an exquisitely composed contra-lexicon, a paean to defiance’ (Bella Li).Andrada will be in conversation at Sappho Books on Wednesday 22 October with writer, videopoet, educator, and cultural worker, Carielyn Tunion.
Released by Giramondo this month, KONTRA casts a female gaze on the kontrabida – a Filipina soap opera villain stuck in a rise-and-fall cycle – while invoking a chorus of voices to trace a lineage of opposition and the alternate futures it holds.
In her author note, Andrada writes, ‘this project engages the canon I grew up with – the kontrabida as she exists in Filipino media and her cultural equivalents across the world: women punished for wanting. It is also a reflection on what it means to work with and within language as a Filipina writer. A contribution, perhaps, to an ongoing lineage in the Filipina poetics of refusal.’
The event will open at 6pm for a 6.30pm start. Copies of Andrada’s books will be available for purchase on the night through Giramondo.
This event is free, but RSVP is essential as space is limited.
Learn more: https://events.humanitix.com/book-launch-kontra-by-eunice-andrada
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Where is it happening?
Sappho Books Cafe & Wine Bar, 51 Glebe Point Road,Sydney,NSW,Australia, PyrmontEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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