'they taking pictures of us in the water' by Audrey Brown-Pereira
Channel: Commonwealth Foundation Creatives
Date: 2022-06-30

Written and performed by Audrey Brown-Pereira. Audrey is an innovative poet who plays with text on the page and performs words in the air/ ear. Her poetry collections include ‘Threads of Tivaevae: Kaleidoskope of Kolours’ with Veronica Vaevae by Steele Roberts and ‘Passages in Between I(s)lands’ by Ala Press. Currently working on her third collection ‘a-wake-(e)nd’ with independent publishers Saufo’i Press. Audrey’s poems appear in several anthologies including ‘Vā: Stories by Women of the Moana’ and ‘ Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures’. She is of Cook Islands Maori and Samoan descent, born on the island of Rarotonga and raised in New Zealand. She lives in Samoa with her family and works for an environmental organisation that serves the Pacific region.