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Worldscapes presents an anthology of major poets and poems from around the English speaking world. The emphasis is on 20th century poetry, but the book also includes a selection of classic poetry from the likes of Chaucer and Shakespeare.
First published in 1972, this lighthearted linguistic study of South African spoken English became a well-loved book among South Africans at home and abroad. Unique and humorous, the book was actually adopted by the BBC drama department as a reference for voice coaches when a white, urban, English-speaking South African accent was required. It is available again for a new generation of language lovers.
A vital, exciting collection of poetry for middle senior school level.
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'Being Here' features 21 short stories about and from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Mozambique since 1960. It is a vibrant collection, choses to reflect lived experience of these places in these times - surely the most exciting and most productive period in the history of Southern Africa and its literature.
An essay collection that offers “a fascinating glimpse of post-apartheid South Africa” from the bestselling author of My Traitor’s Heart (The Sunday Times). The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Rian Malan’s remarkable chronicle of South Africa’s halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country. In the title story, Malan investigates the provenance of the world-famous song, recorded by Pete Seeger and REM among many others, which Malan traces back to a Zulu singer named Solomon Linda. He follows the trial of Winnie Mandela; he writes about the last Afrikaner, an old Boer woman who settled on the slopes of Mount Meru; he plunges into President Mbeki’s AIDS po...
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Thabiso never talks about his accident - can't he face up to it? Rashaad may be accepting what he is sexually, but what is he socially? Regan is caught between his old gang life and the movie world.
A collection from writers: poets, playwrights, novelists, print journalists, radio journalists, TV scriptwriters who either edited English Alive or were originally published in English Alive.