Overseas Experience
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ISBN 9780473745677
Poetry
In her full-length poetry debut, Overseas Experience, Nicola Andrews (Ngāti Paoa, Pākehā) finds herself on two sides of the Pacific Ocean, writing to and from Tāmaki Makaurau and San Francisco.
From Overseas, billionaires, the digital realm, Dr. Ropata and a rogue pōhutukawa collide. It’s a world beyond the long white cloud, examined through its eccentricities and familiarities.
The Experience is all-encompassing—full of being Māori, being a hōhā, being a nerd and being fully crack up. The in-between is a transitory existence of liminal spaces, aeroplane meals and customs fatigue that muddles the direction of ‘home’.
Deeply referential and rewardingly funny, Overseas Experience is a collection resonant with anyone who’s made a new home across the sea.
so sip your water, smile at your gated community
make your last declarations, pounamu in hand
before your throat dries out like a myna
warbling in the springtime, broadcasting
here i am here i am here i am
By Nicola Andrews
Published by Āporo Press
Released June 2025
Soft cover
96 pages
165 x 210mm, upright
Download NTI Sheet
Praise
‘Nicola Andrews plays with the ways we articulate diaspora as Indigenous peoples. In their poems, Māori aren't restricted by physical location. We are found in the suburbs, the wires of the internet, the airspace on a flight between California and Tāmaki Makaurau. Overseas Experience reminds us that our lives as modern Māori can be defined by our ancestral skills of navigation. After all, we still identify ourselves by the waka that brought our tūpuna to Aotearoa: it is in our blood to travel, to explore, and when possible, to return home.’
— Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall
Wholesale $15.65 + GST
RRP $30.00
ISBN 9780473745677
Poetry
In her full-length poetry debut, Overseas Experience, Nicola Andrews (Ngāti Paoa, Pākehā) finds herself on two sides of the Pacific Ocean, writing to and from Tāmaki Makaurau and San Francisco.
From Overseas, billionaires, the digital realm, Dr. Ropata and a rogue pōhutukawa collide. It’s a world beyond the long white cloud, examined through its eccentricities and familiarities.
The Experience is all-encompassing—full of being Māori, being a hōhā, being a nerd and being fully crack up. The in-between is a transitory existence of liminal spaces, aeroplane meals and customs fatigue that muddles the direction of ‘home’.
Deeply referential and rewardingly funny, Overseas Experience is a collection resonant with anyone who’s made a new home across the sea.
so sip your water, smile at your gated community
make your last declarations, pounamu in hand
before your throat dries out like a myna
warbling in the springtime, broadcasting
here i am here i am here i am
By Nicola Andrews
Published by Āporo Press
Released June 2025
Soft cover
96 pages
165 x 210mm, upright
Download NTI Sheet
Praise
‘Nicola Andrews plays with the ways we articulate diaspora as Indigenous peoples. In their poems, Māori aren't restricted by physical location. We are found in the suburbs, the wires of the internet, the airspace on a flight between California and Tāmaki Makaurau. Overseas Experience reminds us that our lives as modern Māori can be defined by our ancestral skills of navigation. After all, we still identify ourselves by the waka that brought our tūpuna to Aotearoa: it is in our blood to travel, to explore, and when possible, to return home.’
— Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall
Wholesale $15.65 + GST
RRP $30.00
ISBN 9780473745677
Poetry
In her full-length poetry debut, Overseas Experience, Nicola Andrews (Ngāti Paoa, Pākehā) finds herself on two sides of the Pacific Ocean, writing to and from Tāmaki Makaurau and San Francisco.
From Overseas, billionaires, the digital realm, Dr. Ropata and a rogue pōhutukawa collide. It’s a world beyond the long white cloud, examined through its eccentricities and familiarities.
The Experience is all-encompassing—full of being Māori, being a hōhā, being a nerd and being fully crack up. The in-between is a transitory existence of liminal spaces, aeroplane meals and customs fatigue that muddles the direction of ‘home’.
Deeply referential and rewardingly funny, Overseas Experience is a collection resonant with anyone who’s made a new home across the sea.
so sip your water, smile at your gated community
make your last declarations, pounamu in hand
before your throat dries out like a myna
warbling in the springtime, broadcasting
here i am here i am here i am
By Nicola Andrews
Published by Āporo Press
Released June 2025
Soft cover
96 pages
165 x 210mm, upright
Download NTI Sheet
Praise
‘Nicola Andrews plays with the ways we articulate diaspora as Indigenous peoples. In their poems, Māori aren't restricted by physical location. We are found in the suburbs, the wires of the internet, the airspace on a flight between California and Tāmaki Makaurau. Overseas Experience reminds us that our lives as modern Māori can be defined by our ancestral skills of navigation. After all, we still identify ourselves by the waka that brought our tūpuna to Aotearoa: it is in our blood to travel, to explore, and when possible, to return home.’
— Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall