Always Italicise: How to write while colonised: 2022
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Always Italicise: How to write while colonised: 2022
By (Author) Alice Te Punga Somerville
Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press
8th September 2022
New Zealand
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
821.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
88
Width 160mm, Height 215mm, Spine 7mm
Description
A first book of poetry from acclaimed Maori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville.
Reviews
Biting, cheeky, defiant, sage Alices words speak out against injustice, speak up for the overlooked and sidelined, and speak softly for the tamariki. Always Italicise is a collection to carry closely. Aroha Harris
Author Bio
Alice Te Punga Somerville (Te ti Awa, Taranaki) is a scholar, poet and irredentist. She researches and teaches Mori, Pacific and Indigenous texts in order to centre Indigenous expansiveness and de-centre colonialism. Alice is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia. She studied at the University of Auckland, earned a PhD at Cornell University, is a Fulbright scholar and Marsden recipient and has held academic appointments in New Zealand, Canada, Hawaii and Australia. Her first book Once Were Pacific: Mori Connections to Oceania (University of Minnesota Press, 2012) won Best First Book from the Native American & Indigenous Studies Association. Her most recent book is Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook (BWB, 2020).
