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'This collection from one of South Africa’s most respected poets and authors veers between two themes: growing old - especially from a woman’s perspective - and the eternal endurance of Table Mountain. This collection contains the poems in Verweerskrif, with the exception of three untranslatable ...
‘Taut, sensual, funny and full of bodily intelligence. Are you there? Is it only me? these poems ask – as they look you in the eye.’ – Sarah Nuttall. The poems in Bodyhood open widely to the inside while looking outwards at the connecting points of body and being – in love, in feeling, in ...
In The Tempest Prognosticator leeches warn of storms, whales blunder up the Thames, toktokkies tap out their courtship rituals, and women fall for deft cocktail makers and melancholy apes. With her keen eye and a gift for capturing the natural world, Isobel Dixon entices the reader on a journey wher ...
Notes from the Dementia Ward is Finuala Dowling’s third collection of verse following on the brilliant and popular I Flying and Doo-Wop Girls of the Universe. The balance between the grim and the touchingly comic is delicately maintained and the subject is imbued with dignity and grace. The demen ...
Ingrid de Kok is one of South Africa’s leading contemporary poets in English. Other Signs is her fifth volume, and brings her lyric gift to a new level of quiet intensity. ...
The inaugural European Union Sol Plaatje Poetry Competition Anthology honours the spirit of the legendary intellectual giant, Sol Plaatje, the activist, linguist and translator, novelist, journalist and leader. ...
