Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.