Fast Talking PI

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.

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