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.”
“Plastic skin
Big mouth
The other day this lady laughed when I told her where my fibres come from
But I weave, but I weave, but I weave”
Cover art by Danielle Kionasina Dilys Thomson
Published by Tagata Atamai in September 2024
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.”
“Plastic skin
Big mouth
The other day this lady laughed when I told her where my fibres come from
But I weave, but I weave, but I weave”
Cover art by Danielle Kionasina Dilys Thomson
Published by Tagata Atamai in September 2024