“Fast Talking PI” to Enchant Audiences

Lovers of poetry will celebrate the arrival of another Pacific literary gem when Fast Talking PI hits the bookshop shelves on the 9th of March 2009. Complete with the voice of its author burnt on the audio CD and tucked in its jacket pocket, this collection has a riveting sound to it. Written and performed by Selina Tusitala Marsh, this collection is a significant contribution to the growing corpus of Pacific women’s writing in English. As a literary mirror of the multiple Pacific Island identities in Aotearoa and greater Oceania, the poems reflect the complexities of being PI in our local and global world. The poems resonate with Selina’s life, her family, her communities, her ancestries, and her histories. The collection is published by the University of Auckland Press and will be launched on Wednesday 11 March 2009 at the Fale Pasifika at the University of Auckland. Selina is of Samoan, Tuvaluan and European descent and currently lectures in the Department of English at the University of Auckland.