Selina Tusitala Marsh

Selina Tusitala Marsh is of Samoan, Tuvaluan, English, Scottish and French descent. She teaches New Zealand and Pacific Literature at Auckland University.  She is currently completing her first collection of poetry, 'Afakasi'. The development of  Pasifika Poetry is her latest research passion.

Poems [video]

• Statued (stat you?) Traditions
• dancing pili (for Lemi Ponifasio)
• Flying Rats
  
• Pasifika Women Poets
• pig-tailed girl
• The Young & The Restless
• Stand In Black 05

• Tapa in the Park [video]
• Fast Talking PI [audio]
• Ali'i, Guys Like Gauguin, Mutiny On Pitcairn (Blackmail Press/audio)

       Texts

• The Young and the Restless (1994)
• Stand in Black 05
• pig-tailed girl
• ‘dancing pili’ (for Lemi Ponifasio)
• naming myself
• “Statued (stat you?) Traditions”
• protest (nzepc)
• Not Another Nafuna Poem (Best NZ Poems)
• googling tusitala, Hone said, Afakasi is, a tide, a term, (for R.S.) (Blackmail Press 16)
• Salt (Seven Stars)

       Interviews

• Radio NZ [audio]
• Waiheke Radio [audio]