This week on the ABR Podcast, Grace Roodenrys reviews KONTRA by Eunice Andrada, observing that KONTRA draws on a poetics of cultural excavation, in which Andrada retrieves and rewrites the ways that women’s bodies have been framed, worshipped or fetishised. Roodenrys considers how ‘KONTRA must work to resist a number of powerful aesthetic schemes – traditions of writing and imagining women in which they wind up silent, grateful, holy, or dead.’

Grace Roodenrys is a writer and critic from Sydney. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, Cordite, Rabbit, The Saturday Paper, and elsewhere. Here is Grace Roodenrys with ‘Understand me now: Poetry which cuts into the work’, published in the November issue of ABR.

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