Publications

MY BOOKS

Fast Talking PI, viral Pasifika classic

How does a first-gen NZ-born Samoan, Tuvaluan, English, Scottish, French poet find her voice in Aotearoa New Zealand?

Winner of NZ Book Awards, Jesse McKay Best First Book.

Award-winning number 1 collection on Pacific identity

MOPHEAD: How Your Difference Makes a Difference

How did I go from being teased at school as a 'mophead' to becoming the New Zealand Poet Laureate and the owner of a wonderously moppy talking staff, my tokotoko?

Multi-NZ Books Award Winner, including the – 2020 Margaret Mahy Book of the Year – New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults

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Award-winning graphic memoir, MOPHEAD - written and drawn by Selina

MOPHEAD TU: The Queen's Poem

How do I keep and break the Queen's rules in my poem performed for her at Westminster Abbey?

Shortlisted: NZ Children and Young Adult Book Awards

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Award-winning sequel to MOPHEAD, dubbed colonialism 101 for kids

SELECTED WORK

PROFESSORIAL
LECTURE: LED BY LINE

FIRST INTERNALLY PROMOTED PROFESSOR OF PASIFIKA DESCENT

Led By Line Lecture

SPORT NZ: Ihi Aotearoa
Mauri Ora Wellbeing

Connections Conference 2022: Tapping into your creative side

Keynote

Tokotoko's Two Year Tale: NZ Poet Laureate

NZ Poet Laureate 2017-19: Overview in Verse and Images

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'Unity', Westminster Abbey, 2016

A guerilla recording on television!