| Description |
1 online resource (104 pages) |
| Contents |
Book: Matariki -- 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 -- Genesis -- On plagiarism -- To war with story A photo album, an op-shop bragain and a grandbaby -- 50 ways to read a mother -- Mantra -- Ransom -- 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 |
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CD: Matariki -- Chant from Matiatia to Orapiu -- Emailing Albert -- Lead -- New Zealand, the lucky country -- On plagiarism -- Noose -- Boxing -- Fatele -- Muay Thai on Saturdays -- First spar -- Kickboxing cancer -- Salt |
| Summary |
In Dark Sparring, Selina Tusitala Marsh combats family loss with all the techniques of poetry, ritual and Thai kickboxing at her disposal. The book and accompanying CD brim with fluid, humming list poems, literary shoutouts and personal elegies, as Marsh takes us through her mother's diagnosis with cancer and the long journey out the other side of her illness. Along the way, she shows us other parts of her world: scenes from Matiatia to Ōrapiu to Apia; classroom politics; the importance of leadership; and the reasons New Zealand is a 'lucky' country. Dark Sparring has an appealing voice, a strong right hook and an affecting, rhythmic heart |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Grief -- Poetry
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FICTION -- General.
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Grief
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781775585404 |
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1775585409 |
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1306160332 |
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9781306160339 |
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9781775580577 |
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1775580571 |
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