Notes

'Karlo Mila's voice travels from urban Aotearoa to Tonga and Samoa via friendships and family relationships. In this first collection of poetry she explores the intergenerational tensions between migration and returning, the new and the traditional, the emergent professional classes and their working-class migration communities of origin. The poems take delight in language itself and the possibilities afforded by a Tongan-Maori-Palangi fusion'--Back cover