Pasifika Voices: Introduction
PEN Transmissions editors Will Forrester & Nadia Saeed introduce the Pasifika Voices series
Pasifika Voices
A series of urgent personal essays by writers from across the Pacific exploring climate and land, but also a wealth of intersecting ideas – language, family, identity, sovereignty, politics. Commissioned with a particular index of free expression in mind: a writer’s freedom to write on what they want, in their own words, irrespective of what audiences (or editors) might presuppose to be ‘important’ to writers from particular communities…
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Articles
EROSION, A6: Notes on the Waikīkī Blackout Poetry Project
Noʻu Revilla, Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), on the power of ecopoetry
We Too Are the Trees
Karlo Mila on language, knowledge, and right relationships.
Those Riding Shotgun
Nadine Anne Hura (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) on climate, making time, and making people listen.