Mophead Tū - Stand with integrity
Tusitala is Samoan for Storyteller - Mophead by Selina Tusitala Marsh
In her award-winning MOPHEAD, poet laureate and fast talking PI Selina Tusitala Marsh recounted her experience growing up Pasifika in Aotearoa and realising how her (and your) difference can make a difference.
In Mophead Tu, Selina is crowned Commonwealth Poet and invited to perform for the Queen in Westminster Abbey. But when someone at work calls her a ‘sellout’, Selina starts doubting herself. Can she stand with her people who struggled against the Queen . . . and still serve the Queen?
From the sinking islands in the South Seas to the smoggy streets of London, Mophead Tu: The Queen’s Poem is a hilariously thought-provoking take on colonial histories and one poet’s journey to bridge the divide.
More info, online orders here:
https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/mophead-tu-the.../
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Selina wrote a poem for Mophead, performed here at last night's Unity Books Auckland launch #mophead #booklaunch
Selina Tusitala Marsh performs 'Tokotoko's 2 Year Tale'
What a remarkable two years, Selina Tusitala Marsh. And there's a little preview in there of her next book, Mophead ❤️
We took some shots of the jacket and cover of 'Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys' (edited by Catherine Hammond and Mary Kisler). Cover design by Keely O'Shannessy and internal design by Katrina Duncan, it has a french-folded jacket with flaps, plain case with debossed lettering, foil stamping on front and spine. Endpapers: Frances Hodgkins, 'Untitled (Textile design no VII)', c. 1925. Co-published with the Auckland Art Gallery, for release 2 May 2019.
The magnificent Mika performs Adele's Skyfall with a twist of te reo Māori for spice at the launch of I Have Loved Me a Man. I think we'll need all of our authors to sing for us at book events from now on.
CK Stead reading tonight at Devonport Library with Kevin Ireland ably chairing
A real treat to attend the launch of Chris Bourke's new book Good-bye Maoriland with MC, Tim Finn and with the Auckland Heritage Festival and Michael King Writers' Centre. The north shore brass band did us so proud and hearing music from the First World War in the perfect setting of the Devonport Vic Theatre was poignant indeed.
