Tightrope

Author: Marsh Selina Tusitala

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  • : $30.95 AUD
  • : 9781869408725
  • : Auckland University Press
  • : Auckland University Press
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  • : 0.195045
  • : August 2017
  • : 230mm X 165mm
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  • : Marsh Selina Tusitala
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  • : Paperback
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  • : English
  • : 821.92
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Barcode 9781869408725
9781869408725

Description

Built around the abyss, the tightrope, and the trick that we all have to perform to walk across it, Pasifika poetry warrior Selina Tusitala Marsh brings to life in Tightrope her ongoing dialogue with memory, life and death to find out whether 'stories' really can 'cure the incurable'. In Marsh's poetry, sharp intelligence combines a focused warrior fierceness with perceptive humour and energy, upheld by the mana of the Pacific.

Awards

Longlisted for Ockhams NZ Book Awards Poetry Prize 2018

Author description

Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh is of Samoan, Tuvaluan, English and French descent. She was the first Pacific Islander to graduate with a PhD in English from the University of Auckland and is now an associate professor in the English department, specialising in Pasifika literature. Her first collection, the bestselling Fast Talking PI, won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry in 2010. Marsh represented Tuvalu at the London Olympics Poetry Parnassus event in 2012; her work has been translated into Ukrainian and Spanish and has appeared in numerous forms live in schools, museums, parks, billboards, print and online literary journals. As Commonwealth Poet (2016) she composed and performed a poem for the Queen at Westminster Abbey.