Fast Talking PI
Published on 22. June 2012
Book
Hardback
80 pages
978-1-904614-77-7 (ISBN)
Description
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I throw out a life line / but no one's read it
(from 'Cardboard Crowns')
A Pacific Islander (PI) of Samoan, Tuvaluan, English, Scottish and French descent, Selina Tusitala Marsh reflects on the issues affecting the Pacific communities of New Zealand, as well as indigenous peoples around the world - including the challenges and triumphs of being afakasi (mixed race).
The book is made up of three sections: 'Tusitala' (personal poems), 'Talkback' (political and historical poems) and 'Fast Talking PIs' (sequences of dialogue). Together the poems smash stereotypes, and challenge historic injustices the world over.
Selina Tusitala Marsh was the first Pacific Islander to graduate from the University of Auckland with a PhD in English, where she now lectures in Maori and Pacific literary studies. In 2010 she won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry for the Auckland University Press edition of this collection (2009), which made the top five bestsellers list in New Zealand.
I throw out a life line / but no one's read it
(from 'Cardboard Crowns')
A Pacific Islander (PI) of Samoan, Tuvaluan, English, Scottish and French descent, Selina Tusitala Marsh reflects on the issues affecting the Pacific communities of New Zealand, as well as indigenous peoples around the world - including the challenges and triumphs of being afakasi (mixed race).
The book is made up of three sections: 'Tusitala' (personal poems), 'Talkback' (political and historical poems) and 'Fast Talking PIs' (sequences of dialogue). Together the poems smash stereotypes, and challenge historic injustices the world over.
Selina Tusitala Marsh was the first Pacific Islander to graduate from the University of Auckland with a PhD in English, where she now lectures in Maori and Pacific literary studies. In 2010 she won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry for the Auckland University Press edition of this collection (2009), which made the top five bestsellers list in New Zealand.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Lancs
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
253 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-904614-77-7 (9781904614777)
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Persons
Selina Tusitala Marsh is of Samoan, Tuvaluan, English, Scottish and French descent, and was the first Pacific Islander to graduate from The University of Auckland with a PhD in English, where she is now a lecturer. Her work has been widely published and has appeared in a range of online and hardcopy literary journals and anthologies including Blackmail Press, Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English, Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English-Whetu Moana II (Auckland University Press/UHP), Best New Zealand Poems 2006, Niu Voices: Contemporary Pacific Fiction 1 and The Contemporary Pacific (UHP). She established and coordinates Pasifika Poetry, an online hub celebrating the poetry of tagata o te moana nui, the peoples of the Pacific; and is also the co-Chair of the South Pacific Association of Language and Literature.
Content
Contents, TUSITALA, Googling Tusitala , Not Another Nafanua Poem , Afakasi , Calabash Breakers , Hone Said , Things on Thursdays, Song for Terry, , Langston's Mother, Cardboard Crowns , The Sum of Mum, Wild Horses , Three to Four , Le Amataga / The Beginning, Spare the Rod, A Samoan Star-chant for Matariki, Circle of Stones , TALKBACK Guys like Gauguin, Nails for Sex, Mutiny on Pitcairn, Two Nudes on a Tahitian Beach, 1894, Venus in Transit , Realpolitik , Contact 101 , Has the whole tribe come out from England?, What's Sarong With This?, The Curator, Hawai'i: Prelude to a Journey, Touring Hawaii and Its People , Alice's Billboard , FAST TALKING PI Acronym , Outcast , Notes and acknowledgements