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 Share this product | Dream Fish Floatingby Karlo Mila This outstanding first collection of poetry by Karlo Mila explores the intergenerational tensions between migration and returning, the new and the traditional, the emergent professional classes and their working-class migrant communities of origin. Sassy, intelligent poetry. WINNER of a Montana New Zealand Book Award - New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry - Dream Fish Floating by Karlo Mila (Huia Publishers). "With her roots in Pakeha New Zealand, Samoa and Tonga," said the judges, "Karlo Mila writes with flair, energy and passion, creating a direct, accessible poetry. This multi-cultural, lyrical voice is one the judges expect to hear a lot more of." 'It is a dynamic and absolutely compelling reflection of the cultural and linguistic fusion that Aotearoa and the Pacific is now.' Albert Wendt.
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