Telling Truth Aslant: Alexandra Effe and Selina Tusitala Marsh

In August 2025, Alexandra Effe conducted an interview with newly appointed inaugural Commonwealth Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh.

Paper and pen

Photo: Unsplash / Aaron Burden

The interview, published in Sydney Review of Books, explores questions inspired by LCE conversations on extended cognition, creative writing, and creativity—about creative practice as basis for health hand wellbeing, about the materials and strategies through which Marsh forms her poetry, and about alchemizing grief through art.

The collaboration emerged from an LCE-funded research stay at the Centre for Arts and Social Transformation, University of Auckland (in December 2024); travel for the interview was supported by an Anders Jahre Foundation grant.

Published Nov. 20, 2025 8:21 PM - Last modified Nov. 20, 2025 8:21 PM