An Embroidery of Old Maps and New

An Embroidery of Old Maps and New
Angela Costi
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h210 x 146mm - 96pg
1 Mar 2021 AU
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9781925950243
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I can see how I carry Yiayia' s warin the ample dunes of my belly,the moment she smelt the guns,she pinched the candle' s wick,gathered the startled shadows of her children,flung my baby-mother onto her backand sprinted towards the neutral moon-Migration and the memories of women' s traditions are woven throughout these poems. Angela Costi brings the world of Cyprus to Australia. Her mother encounters animosity on Melbourne' s trams as Angela learns to thread words in ways that echo her grandmother' s embroidery. Here are poems that sing their way across the seas and map histories.
"Angela Costi threads the colours and textures of heart and humanity through fabric drawn across geographies. Cut from one cloth, she stitches complexity of journey, place and people. Now and then. Anchored and looping. Her yarn and needle weave a taut finely detailed tapestry. This braid of head, heart and hand is to be treasured, passed on, a witness to events that must not be disappeared. " --berni m. janssen, author of between wind and water (in a vulnerable place)
Angela Costi is known as Aggeliki Kosti among the Cypriot-Greek diaspora. She is a graduate of both Law and Professional Writing and Editing, and works as a lawyer and community artist with a focus on social justice issues. Since 1994, Angela' s poetry, stories, plays, essays and reviews, with travel and migration at their heart, have been widely published nationally and internationally. In 1995, she received an award from the Australian National Languages and Literacy Board to study Ancient Drama in Greece. In 2009, she travelled to Japan with support from the Australian Council to work on an international collaboration with the Stringraphy Ensemble. In Cyprus, Angela' s maternal grandmother skilfully created the renowned Lefkarathika embroidery. However, both her parents left Cyprus for Australia to escape poverty, civil unrest and imminent war. These experiences have inspired An Embroidery of Old Maps and New, her fifth poetry collection.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781925950243
Published: 1 Mar 2021
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Spinifex Press
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 146mm
Pages: 96

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