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A Slim Green Silence
“You will know this thing when you see it,” the Boatman tells Connie, “and you must be finished by half past six.” As she floats above her hometown of Scheepersdorp, Constance West can’t tell how long it’s been since she died. Nor why the mysterious Boatman rowed her back here. Beneath her, all the people she loved appear to be thriving. But the house of her guardian, the town dentist and former mayor, seems suspiciously quiet. And then there is Marianne, the baby daughter she had to leave behind. In Beverly Rycroft’s beautifully crafted novel, a small South African town in 1995 forms the backdrop to Connie’s tale. With honesty, humour and tenderness, Connie unravels the stories of her loved ones, and allows a secret in her own past to emerge.
Missing
Beverly Rycroft was born in the Eastern Cape. She is a graduate of the University of Cape Town and the University of the Witwatersrand. A qualified teacher, she taught for several years before turning to writing full-time. She has written articles for both local and international magazines and in 2000 was joint winner of the Femina/Sensa Features competition. Her poems have appeared in Carapace and New Coin, and are due to appear in the 2009 edition of Scrutiny 2. She lives in Cape Town with her family. Missing is her first collection of poems.
A Private Audience
"In her second volume of poetry; A Private Audience, Beverly Rycroft navigates the 'echoing counterpoint' of womanhood. Painful family relationships, illness and death are some of the themes if this riveting collection written in sparse, electric verses. The 'voracious memory' is haunting in this commendable work." - JOAN HAMBIDGE
The Only Magic We Know
The Only Magic We Know is a celebration of all the poets Modjaji has published. This anthology offers a taste of the range and diversity of the poems that have appeared in the individual poets collections.
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The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology
Poetry anthology in multiple languages, with translations into English. Foreword / Liesl Jobson -- It is a risk / Ingrid Andersen -- Sterkfontein Bones ; Remembering Afghanistan / Christine M Coates -- Anatomy ; With her Feet on the Ground ; Don't speak / Gail Dendy -- The Anatomy of Poetry ; Miracle ; Digger / Dawn Gari -- Sitting ; For Gemma / Anthea Garman -- A Terible Beauty / Denise Gray -- In the Balance ; Curry Kindling ; Weather and Season Song / Dorian Haarhoff -- Chernobyl ; Blushing brides / Megan Hall -- my mentor is dressing me / Geoffrey Haresnape -- My Ma se Blues ; Song ; Prelude for Solo and Group Voices / Siddiq Khan -- Ubomi ; Life / Nosipho Kota --she imagines ; the city ...
An Unobtrusive Vice
“Crouched among the last surviving pieces of my life’s wreck, I seek a chemistry, some wizard’s formula which releases the wayward life from its grim history.” – Tony Ullyatt, ‘Like Icarus’
The Coroner's Wife: Poems in Translation
Joan Hambidge has published over 25 collections of poetry. Her work uses the magnifying lense of poetry to dissect, examine and recompose the material of her own life and work, and in so doing, explores ideas and issues central to our understanding of language and meaning. The poems selected for translation in this compilation offer insights into her views across a spectrum of four categories: city life; love and family; ars poetica; and time and eternity. The Coroner’s Wife offers English readers the unique opportunity to experience a prolific and renowned Afrikaans poet in their own language. Translations have been sensively rendered by wellknown poets, Charl JF Cilliers, Johann de Lange, Jo Nel and Douglas Reid Skinner.
Landscapes of Light and Loss
"The poems in this collection bear witness with the crisp attention of a Robert Capa photograph. These ecosystems, each with their own by-laws ... hold together such a curious, nearly impossible balance in his new book." - David Keplinger, author of Another City (Milkweed Editions, 2018)
The Reckless Sleeper
In this, her second individual collection, Haidee Kruger extends the accomplishment of her earlier work. With inventive use of line and page and an unusual, but telling, juxtaposition of images, she achieves a poetry that is simultaneously visceral and intellectual. Her poems are at once both toughly gnarled and delicately gentle. They immerse the reader in a world where the body is interpenetrated by the natural, sexual and workaday, and the previously familiar emerges strange and new.
