Photo credit: Jordan Kwan

‘a-wake-(e)nd’

‘who are you, where you come from, where you been your ( )hole life?’

‘Wounded: they who become men’

Audrey Teuki Tetupuariki Tuioti Brown-Pereira (1975) is an innovative poet who plays with text on the page and words in the air/ear. Poetry collections include Threads of Tivaevae: Kaleidoskope of Kolours (2002) with Veronica Vaevae published by Steele Roberts and Passages in Between I(s)lands (2014) with Ala Press. Her pieces appear in anthologies: Vā: Stories from Women of the Moana; Whetu Moana; and Mauri Ola and she has performed at the New Zealand Fringe Festival and Poetry Parnassus in London. She wrote the script for the short film The Cat’s Crying with He Taonga Films (1995) and experimental film inspired by her poem of the same name The Rainbow (1997) with Veronica Vaevae. Audrey was the special poetry curator for Mana Moana – Pasifika Voices (2022), a collection of poems and artistic video works, created to amplify and support the Pacific to drive global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Born in the Cook Islands and raised in New Zealand, Audrey lives in Sāmoa with her family. She is a graduate of Auckland University and the National University of Samoa.

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