Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick

Author(s): Meredith Courtney Sina

NZ Poetry

Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick is a collection of poetry by Courtney Sina Meredith. Meredith has established a local and international reputation as a performer, poet, musician and playwright. Her work is an on-going discussion of contemporary urban life with an underlying Pacific politique and an educated, politically aware, international voice. Courtney Sina Meredith is a fulltime Arts Advisor for Auckland Council where she develops programmes for young artists, diverse communities and community artists. She is of Samoan, Mangaian and Irish descent.

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'Courtney Sina Meredith’s poetry sparkles with an eloquence and creativity that is both impressive and unique.' --Natalia Fernandez, BBC Radio 4

 

Meredith has established a local and international reputation as a performer, poet, musician and playwright. It's been a remarkable year for Meredith following on from her Berlin writers' residencey last spring.  She toured Indonesia for the International Poetry Festival in April and in June was a delegate of the British Council in London for a series of Phakama arts initiatives that formed part of London's cultural Olympiad.  Her first visual art installation Machen Saya was exhibited at the Mangere Arts Centre over winter and her award winning play Rushing dolls will be published in Urbanesia a collection of New Zealand plays from Pacific playwrights by Playmarket.

INTRODUCTION / ROBERT SULLIVAN -- Editor's notes -- Don't trust a Samoan -- No Motorbikes, No Golf -- Distant Early Warning -- 7 births, 3 deaths and 1 immigrant -- Midnight Limbs -- Space Dance -- Old Slang -- Christmas Dove -- Wakefield Street -- Back Home -- Rushing Dolls are everywhere -- My Second Mother's Fifty Summers Old -- Jam Sandwich on the Lawn -- Once -- Cause Fishing -- The up and up -- On account of friends who thieve -- Basilica -- Aitu -- Transmigration of Souls -- Later day prayer -- Brown girls in bright red lipstick -- For John and the dog gone -- Eighth star -- Civilisation fail -- White ant in a fish -- Free hand love chat -- Rushing Doll -- Over-bridge -- Karangahape -- The Contemporary -- Territory -- I walked my soul -- A good man gives his seat up on the bus -- Cloth saints -- GLOSSARY.

General Fields

  • : 9780473219987
  • : Beatnik Publishing
  • : Beatnik Publishing
  • : October 2012
  • : 186x115mm
  • : October 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Meredith Courtney Sina
  • : Hardback
  • : English
  • : 821.3
  • : General Adult
  • : DC