Talia Marshall

Aug 27, 2024 | wordchristchurch.co.nz | Airana Ngarewa |Catherine Taylor |Talia Marshall |Tayi Tibble

“Imagination is a form of courage” – Janet FrameOn the day that marks the centenary of the trailblazing Aotearoa writer Janet Frame’s birth, our festival guests Catherine Taylor (UK), Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe (USA), Tayi Tibble (Te Whānau ā Apanui, Ngāti Porou) Talia Marshall (Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Rārua, Ngāti Takihiku) and Airana Ngarewa (Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāruahine, Ngā Rauru) explore their own moments of imagination and courage.

Aug 4, 2024 | newsroom.co.nz | Talia Marshall

Who are you killing? Before Roman, all my boyfriends were fairly nice and normal. In 1997, in my second year at university in Dunedin, I took about 120 dried liberty cap magic mushrooms with one of them. Like Ans, his parents were Dutch, so he was called Dieter. The mushrooms were in little see-through capsules and seemed harmless enough. We had no specific plan and mooched around Woodhaugh Gardens waiting for the trip to come on.

Jun 19, 2024 | newsroom.co.nz | Talia Marshall

Never fear! The rogue Māori is here! To be honest I’m pretty fūcken peeved at having to join the chorus, late, of witless Pākehā who have thoughts on Paul Moon’s book Ans Westra: A Life In Photography. Steve Braunias is all right, we are friends, but I wasn’t happy about having to mop up after Scott Hamilton’s big fantasist boots AND Paul Moon’s fundamentalist tippytoes.

Apr 24, 2024 | newsroom.co.nz | Talia Marshall

There are three books I have wolfed down in one sitting over the last two years. Colleen   Maria Lenihan’s gorgeous and sad debut Kōhine, Noelle McCarthy’s memoir Grand about becoming her mother and then unbecoming her, and now Hine Toa, a staunch yet gentle self-portrait by living legend Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku (Te Arawa/Tūhoe/Waikato).

Feb 21, 2024 | taliamarshall.substack.com | Talia Marshall

Efeso Collins had just finished carrying buckets of water for children who don’t have access to clean water when he collapsed and died. What should have been a fun charity event ended in shock and palpable grief. The week before I had watched Efeso give his maiden speech in parliament because that is the kind of brief personal theatre I enjoy. I have taken to watching Parliament TV again because the Opposition is more interesting than those in power. Well, Te Pāti Māori is.