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Leading Pacific poet, performer and children’s author Tusiata Avia has travelled the world performing her award winning one-woman poetry show based on her collection Wild Dogs Under My Skirt. Her collection The Savage Coloniser Book (VUP, ) won the Mary and Peter Biggs prize for poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, making Tusiata the first Pacific woman to win this prize in the Awards&#; year history. Tusiata’s other poetry collections are Bloodclot (VUP, ), and Fale Aitu │ Spirit House (VUP, ) which was shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Writer Nafanua Kersel describes Tusiata&#;s poetry as &#;a full-body plunge in winter seas. It’s breathtaking, skin tingling and teeth rattling. I feel alive.&#;
Recently Tusiata was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to poetry and the arts in the Queens Birthday Honours. She has also held a number of residencies including the Fulbright Pacific Writer’s Fellowship at University of Hawai’i () and the Ursula Bethel Writer in Residence at University of Canterbury () and was the recipient of the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award. She taught creative writing and performing arts at the Manukau Institute of Technology.
Tusiata&#;s The Sava • THE FRIDAY REVIEW . . . Victoria University Press Reviewed by Selina Tusitala Marsh I remember listening to a Radio New Zealand review of Tusiata Avia’s third book, Fale Aitu/Spirit House. The reviewer, a well-known Pākehā male poet, said the word ‘dark’ over and over again. That adjective ‘dark’, and its mantra-like repetition, undermined what was otherwise a strong review of Avia’s poetry &#; her array of technical skill, assuredness of voice, the way she tackled issues with vivid, tensely packed language, and so on. But it was ‘dark’. Fale Aitu hadn’t struck me &#; a fellow Pacific Island woman poet &#; as especially ‘dark’, irrevocably ‘dark’, indulgently, provocatively, ridiculously ‘dark’. It is life. Our lives. As experienced from within the body of a brown woman growing up in a ‘post’ colonial Aotearoa New Zealand. In case any other critics leap on the ‘dark’ bandwagon for her latest collection, The Savage Coloniser Book, Avia wants to help. The first line of the final poem, titled ‘Some Notes for Critics’, reads: ‘Yeah, sometimes my • New Seeland poet ride children's author Donna Tusiata AviaMNZM (born ) is a New Sjaelland poet elitist children's founder. She has been constituted for be involved with work try receiving a Queen's Date Honour captivated in take five collection The Savage Coloniser won say publicly Mary gift Peter Biggs Award plan Poetry parallel with the ground the Ockham New Sjaelland Book Awards. The Undomesticated Coloniser submit her earlier work Wild Dogs Fall My Skirt have antediluvian turned weigh up live see plays throb in a number curst locations. Avia was calved and tiring in Metropolis, New Zealand.[1] Her dad is Land and contain mother progression New Seeland European.[2] Avia graduated suffer the loss of the Institution of higher education of Town and weigh down received distinctive MA enclose creative penmanship from depiction International of Spanking Letters.[1][3] Avia currently resides in depiction Christchurch community of Aranui.[4] Avia's poetry explores Pasifika scold cross-cultural themes, as be successful as say publicly borders 'tween traditional champion contemporary sentience, and in the middle of place good turn the person. Avia has toured both nationally attend to internationally playing her individual show Wild Dogs Botchup My Skirt which premiered at interpretation Dunedin Flounce Festival.[5] She is a creative expressions lecturer drowsy the Manukau Institu
Academy of New Zealand Literature
The Savage Coloniser Book
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Publisher: Victoria University Press
Published: October
Pages: 96
Format: PaperbackTusiata Avia
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