Flood Damages

Powerfulfirst collection by acclaimed Filipina Australian performance poet In Flood Damages Andrada explores themesassociated with immigration and inheritance, through the figure of a young AustralianFilipina woman, whose family has been irreparably damaged by deportation,violence and illness. The wounds inflicted by these events, political andpersonal, are felt most keenly in and through her body 'your blood sings ofthe scattered histories/ that left you here' and in a dramatic use of language,