In The Media

Video

• The Last Bird Poem, Red Room Poetry

• Tusiata Avia, Frank Films

• Tusiata Avia wins the Ockham Award for Poetry, Tagata Pasifika

• Return to Paradise, The South Bank Centre

Audio

• RNZ Bookmarks, 23 September 2026

Other

• The Saturday Paper, The Last Bird Poem, Aug 2026

• RNZ, Telling Her Truth, 30 May 2026

• The Press, Tusiata Avia named as one of 165 influential Cantabrians, May 2026

• The Spinoff, Why I’ve watched Schitt’s Creek 43 times (and counting), 20 February 2026

• Books + Publishing, Ockham 2026 Longlist Announced, 29 January 2026

  2025

• Arts Hub Au, Review Upu, 03 May 2025

• RNZ, Pacific Underground, 21 May 2025

• Stuff, Blackball, 5 June 2025

• Medellín International Poetry Festival, Poetry verses colonisation in New Zealand, July 2025

• Scoop, National Poetry Day, 31 July 2025

• The Big Idea, Is it time you started a newsletter?, 13 Oct 2025

• Authors.org.nz, Tusiata Avia named as 2026 International Institute of Modern Letters Writer in Residence, 30 Oct 2025

• Kete Books, Review: Giving Birth to My Father, by Tusiata Avia, November 2025

• The Post, What I’m Reading, 16 Nov 2025

• RNZ, Author Interview, 16 Nov 2025

• RNZ, Tusiata Avia has been hiding this book away for years, 16 November 2025

• RNZ, Book review: Giving Birth to My Father by Tusiata Avia, 28 Nov 2025

• Newsroom, Best Poetry Books of 2025, 10 December 2025

• The Spinoff, An A to Z of The Spinoff’s best books of 2025, 10 December 2025

2024

• The Post, Artist to artist: The poet and the producer, 27 Feb 2024

• Theatreview, The Savage Coloniser Show Review, 02 Mar 2024

• Toi Otautahi, Tusiata Avia in Conversation, 5 Mar 2024

• e-tangata, Tusiata Avia: A strange dance with friends, 17 Mar 2024

• ABC, Tusiata Avia on the inspiration behind her acclaimed stage show, Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, 18 Mar 2024

• Samoa Observer, Poet, author Tusiata Avia shares what she would tell her 15-year-old self, 30 Mar 2024

• Honi Swat, Rage and Resilience: Wild Dogs Under My Skirt shakes the stage, Apr 12 2024

• Coal Coast Magazine, Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, Apr 3, 2024

• Honi Swat, Rage and Resilience: Wild Dogs Under My Skirt shakes the stage, Apr 12 2024

• ABC, Tusiata Avia unveils the complexities and realities of being an outspoken artist and activist, 29 May 2024

• Scoop, Savage Coloniser Heads North & South Ahead Of First International Season, 11 July 2024

• Frank Film, Stories From the South Season 2, 18 July 2024

• Theatreview, The Savage Coloniser Show Review, 11 Aug 2024

• PMN, Savage Coloniser Show, 07 Aug 2024

• The Spinoff, ‘I’m writing you a poem about art’: a new poem by Tusiata Avia, 21 Oct 2024

  2023

• Stuff, Interview, 19 Feb 2023

• the Spinoff, How to read a poem, 27 Feb 2023

• The Pantograph Punch, Case 3392: Tusiata Avia can’t wait to make you uncomfortable (or, I Become an Evil-Brown-Woman-Poet-Werewolf), 4 May 2023

• PMN, Big Fat Brown Bitch, 11 Oct 2023

• e-tangata, Tusiata Avia: Giving Myself Permission, 26 Nov 2023

• RNZ, Tusiata Avia: 'I was bloody rarked up', 9 Dec 2023

• e-tangata, Dancing in the footsteps of our ancestors, 10 Dec 2023

• Stuff, Tusiata Avia responds to ACT MP's 'race baiting' claim, 29 Dec 2023

  Older

• The Press, The Friday Poem: The City Fathers, by Tusiata Avia, 26 Nov 2021

• Newsroom, Yowsa!: the 2021 ReadingRoom literary awards, 20 Dec 2021

• ``e-tangata, Tusiata Avia: I go to my sister-artists and we talk, 9 Sep 2017