In this lecture, Selina explores a praxis she calls ‘Led by Line’, a literary framing device that weaves together bloodlines, written lines, spoken lines and drawn lines to nourish and beautify decolonial spaces between storylines, bodylines and landlines. Drawing upon the lines from her taulima and tualima (Samoan women’s hand tattoos) Selina’s anti-linear exploration focuses on her work as a Pasifika Artist-Academic and her episte-mythological practice of re-storying and re-storing Pacific myths in order to address our current environmental crises.
About the speaker:
Selina Tusitala Marsh (ONZM, FRSNZ) is the former Commonwealth Poet, New Zealand Poet Laureate and acclaimed performer and author. In 2019 she was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to poetry, literature and the Pacific community. In 2020 Selina was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Selina lectures in the English Department at the University of Auckland where she teaches Pacific Literature and Creative Writing. Selina has performed poetry for primary schoolers and presidents (Obama), queers and Queens (HRH Elizabeth II). She has published three critically acclaimed collections of poetry, Fast Talking PI (2009), Dark Sparring (2013), Tightrope (2017). Her graphic memoir, Mophead (2019), won the Margaret Mahy Supreme Book in the 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and won the PANZ Best Book Design for 2020. Its sequel, Mophead TU: The Queen's Poem was shortlisted for the NZ Book Awards (2021). She has just completed Mophead: KNOT Book 3 and is working on a genre-bending graphic poetry anthology on first wave Pacific women poets from 16 Pacific Island nations.
When: Thursday 15th September 2022, 6 - 8.00pm
From 5.30pm - 6.30pm drinks and nibbles provided ~ Selina's lecture from 7-8.00pm
Where: Fale Pasifika, 20-26 Wynyard Street City Campus University of, Auckland 1010
Drinks & nibbles will be served at the Fale
Think GREEN! - registration is for catering purposes only, no need to print out your ticket
