Dark Sparring
Poems
Published on 1. January 2014
106 pages
978-1-77558-540-4 (ISBN)
Description
Where Selina Marsh's first collection, Fast Talking PI, boldly, insightfully, and lyrically wrestled with the realities of being an individual of Pacific descent in a primarily European world, her latest offering fiercely combats the loss of a loved one with all of the techniques of poetry and the Thai kickboxing she practices at her disposal. The compendium brims with a fluid, humming list of poems, literary shout outs, and personal elegies, as Marsh takes readers through her mother's cancer diagnosis and the long journey as her illness played itself out. Along the way, the poet offers glimpses of other parts of her world as well: scenes from Matiatia to Orapiu to Apia; classroom politics; the importance of leadership; and the reasons she feels New Zealand is a "lucky" country. The affecting, rhythmic verses in the book are given a literal, and appealing, voice in the accompanying audio CD, on which Marsh reads aloud a selection of the poems.
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10/2013
Auckland University Press
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Content
- Cover
- About the author
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Matariki
- Part 1
- Chant from Matiatia to Orapiu
- Airport Road to Apia
- Niu Sila Skin
- Bound for Sigatoka
- Checklist
- All the Smallest One
- Teaching Pacific Literature
- Emailing Albert
- Afakasi Archipelago
- Fast Talking Somalis
- The Best Men / Sione's Wedding
- Girl from Tuvalu
- Lead
- Ha'akula Circle
- New Zealand, The Lucky Country
- Part 2
- Genesis
- On Plagiarism
- To War with Story
- A Photo Album, an Op-shop Bargain and a Grandbaby
- 50 Ways to Read a Mother
- Mantra
- We have your mother
- Blackbird
- Guidelines
- 13 Ways of Looking at Mourning
- Penance
- Noose
- Page 11
- This is How we are to Love
- A Formal Dinner
- Signs
- The Day Amy Died
- Boxing
- Galu Afi
- Fatele
- Pebble
- Muay Thai on Saturdays
- Master Tricks
- Floating Ribs
- First Spar
- Kickboxing Cancer
- Anniversary
- Salt
- Acknowledgements
