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...
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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 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
