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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

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The judging panel found Marsh's collection exhilarating: ""The poems are sensuous but strong, using lush imagery and clear rhythms and repetitions to power them forward."" The featured verse is sensuous but strong, using lush imagery, clear rhythms, and repetitions to power it forward.

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Built around the abyss, the tightrope, and the trick that we all have to perform to walk across it, Pasifika poetry warrior Selina Tusitala Marsh brings to life in Tightrope her ongoing dialogue with memory, life and death to find out whether "stories" really can "cure the incurable".