Own all three of Tagata Atamai’s Indigenous poetry collections: Tusitala, Tusiata, & Moana: Voices of Our Ocean!
Tusitala is the debut poetry collection from Danielle Kionasina Dilys Thomson. It was written for “the mothers who whispered wisdom into my ears, aunties who slipped twenty-dollar notes into my hands and sisters who cackled with me into the night. These poems are an archive of the lives we have lived together. They are eternal - like us.”
Tusiata is the sophomore poetry collection from Danielle Kionasina Dilys Thomson. This book was written for the daughters of the diaspora; the maidens of many migrations; the princesses of pāua. Tusiata is a true account of a teine Sāmoa smacking the streets of Aukilani, and swimming all the way home to the shores of Apia. She is an invitation to talanoa with your whole self, your ancestors, and the oceans that birthed you.
Moana: Voices of Our Ocean is a collection of poems that was written for and by the descendants of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa. This book is an ode to the ocean that connects us, and our shared migrations. It is a living artefact of our collective memory; an undercurrent that pulls us towards ancestral ways of knowing, dreaming, and navigating.
This collection features writing from Audrey Brown-Pereira, Grace Iwashita-Taylor, Danielle Kionasina Dilys Thomson, Hira Nathan, Mauatua Fa'ara-Reynolds, Brianne Te Paa, Dorell Ben, Elise Sadlier, Montana Tiatia-Sefilino, Māia Te Whetū, John Taukäve, Moira Lomas, Katriana Taufalele, Savannah Patterson, Sarah Dell Ioka Enticott, Rewa Fowles, Christel Hamer, m. paea, Sophia Matafeo, and Rebecca Jennifer George.
Own all three of Tagata Atamai’s Indigenous poetry collections: Tusitala, Tusiata, & Moana: Voices of Our Ocean!
Tusitala is the debut poetry collection from Danielle Kionasina Dilys Thomson. It was written for “the mothers who whispered wisdom into my ears, aunties who slipped twenty-dollar notes into my hands and sisters who cackled with me into the night. These poems are an archive of the lives we have lived together. They are eternal - like us.”
Tusiata is the sophomore poetry collection from Danielle Kionasina Dilys Thomson. This book was written for the daughters of the diaspora; the maidens of many migrations; the princesses of pāua. Tusiata is a true account of a teine Sāmoa smacking the streets of Aukilani, and swimming all the way home to the shores of Apia. She is an invitation to talanoa with your whole self, your ancestors, and the oceans that birthed you.
Moana: Voices of Our Ocean is a collection of poems that was written for and by the descendants of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa. This book is an ode to the ocean that connects us, and our shared migrations. It is a living artefact of our collective memory; an undercurrent that pulls us towards ancestral ways of knowing, dreaming, and navigating.
This collection features writing from Audrey Brown-Pereira, Grace Iwashita-Taylor, Danielle Kionasina Dilys Thomson, Hira Nathan, Mauatua Fa'ara-Reynolds, Brianne Te Paa, Dorell Ben, Elise Sadlier, Montana Tiatia-Sefilino, Māia Te Whetū, John Taukäve, Moira Lomas, Katriana Taufalele, Savannah Patterson, Sarah Dell Ioka Enticott, Rewa Fowles, Christel Hamer, m. paea, Sophia Matafeo, and Rebecca Jennifer George.