Always Italicise – How to write while colonised

By Alice Te Punga Somerville

In wit and anger, sadness and aroha, acclaimed Maori scholar and poet Alice Te Punga Sommerville reflects on ‘how to write while colonised’ – how to write in English as a Maori writer, how to trace links between Aotearoa and wider Pacific, Indigenous and colonial worlds, how to be the only Maori person in a workplace, and how, and why, to do the mahi anyway.