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Eunice Andrada

Eunice Andrada

Eunice Andrada is a poet and educator. Her début poetry collection, Flood Damages (Giramondo Publishing, 2018), won the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry and the Dame Mary Gilmore Award. Her forthcoming collection, TAKE CARE, is out in September 2021. Her poem 'The Yield' is after '5,000 Prostitutes of Erice' by Sonia Feldman. 

 

'The Yield', a poem by Eunice Andrada

July 2021, no. 433 22 June 2021
after Sonia Feldman When I read there were 170 womenseized from brothels in the Gardeniadistrict, loaded into police wagonsand crammed into the hull of a ship,I wonder if they held hands. Or prayed.If they cried when their lurching cagedocked, and when next morningthey were forced to till the dizzyingfields. I wonder how they feltwhen told it was a wastefor pleasure to bear no fruit,how they must ... (read more)