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Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2022
Presenter Biography

Selina Tusitala Marsh
From primary schoolers to Presidents, Gucci to grassroots graffiti artists, drag queens to THE Queen, Selina Tusitala Marsh ONZM breaks the usual poetry boundaries. As New Zealand’s first Pasifika Poet Laureate she takes poetry to the people and reveals how her difference makes the difference. Among her latest accolades is being made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Te Aparangi.
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