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Tuvaluan woman's dress, Tavale, from Tuvalu, by cargocollective
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Tuvaluan woman's dress, Tavale, from Tuvalu, by cargocollective
Over a third of people on sinking Tuvalu seek Australia's climate visas
Tuvaluan dancers, from Tuvalu, by Lotto New Zealand
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As if Matariki leapt off calendar pages turning in my veins down through my fingers bending to pluck a purple orchid.
— Selina Tusitala Marsh, Dark Sparring: Poems, (2014)
I’m the woman skinned with taboos I’m the censoring woman I’m the self-censored woman Rubbing out words as I go.
— Selina Tusitala Marsh, Dark Sparring: Poems, (2014)
She is learning.
A new language gathers in the astropelago of words strung round her throat she charts them through her core belly to shoulder arms to wrists.
— Selina Tusitala Marsh, Dark Sparring: Poems, (2014)
I am the woman of silence […] swallowing the wind of the night.
— Selina Tusitala Marsh, Dark Sparring: Poems, (2014)