A Hundred Silencesis the third collection of poetry by Gabeba Baderoon – recipient of the DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Poetry in 2005. In this new selection of poems the poet explores how every room has its own silences, its own memories and secrets. She speaks of the quiet, gnawing loneliness of hotel rooms in ‘Sleeping in hotels’, of the ache of longing and how sometimes ‘love is in the going away’. She also does not steer away from ...
This Carting Life collects poems that span more than ten years of writing. A fair number of these poems have been published previously in either journals or anthologies, primarily in South Africa, but also abroad in the USA and, in some cases, in translation in France. Within the admittedly small market of poetry (as opposed to other forms of South African literature), the author has some reputation and has recently been awarded the Thomas Pring ...
In this new collection Rustum Kozain, who won both the Ingrid Jonker Prize (2006) and the Olive Schreiner Prize (2007) for This Carting Life, raises his own bar. Groundwork retains strong connections with Kozain's early work, but it does so while simultaneously introducing a group of poems that indicate the promise of work to come. His voice has strengthened and has a new confidence, making the poems (paradoxically) lighter – though they ar ...
Ingrid de Kok is one of South Africa’s leading contemporary poets in English. This book, Other Signs, her fifth volume, brings her lyric gift to a new level of quiet intensity as she looks backwards and forwards across the self’s endeavour to name the world, to touch it and to draw from it the meanings of experience. Compassionate, poignant, exact and playful, each poem is aware of all the others in the collection and together they constitute th ...
Hierdie keur uit al ses digbundels van Adam Small gee ’n beeld van sy onmisbare plek in die verruiming van die Afrikaanse letterkunde. Die meerderheid van die gedigte kom uit Kitaar my kruis en Se Sjibbolet. Die keur weerspieel deurgaans Small se meelewende kyk in die lotgevalle van die bruin Kaapse werkersklasmense. Dit wys ook sy knap beheersing van humor, ironie en satire om gesagsfigure te hekel, en bowenal sy kreatiewe ontginning van alleda ...
Met die nuwe bundel verse vestig Ronelda S. Kamfer haarself opnuut as hoogs talentvolle en denkende digter in Afrikaans. Die landskappe Klippenkust en Skipskop figureer in die gedigte, en ook die karakters Klippie Klip-kop en Sara-Slim-meisie, en Herrij Autshumao en Van Riebeeck. Skeepswrakke onderwater word simbool van verledes wat nooit opgediep is nie. En “oorvertel” van die geskiedenis word uiteindelik “andervertel”, met ironie, fyn humor en ...
Kamfer se gedigte is vreesloos, en skroom nie weg van taboe-onderwerpe nie. Sy skryf veral oor tragedies wat alledaags geword het in die wereld waarin sy haar bevind – dwelms, druglords, en kinders wat doen wat hulle nie hoef te doen nie . . . Haar gedigte is tegelyk toeganklik en onkonvensioneel – sy is ‘n sterk, sterk nuwe stem in Afrikaans. ‘n Vonds. ...
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. This new collection deals in part with the tragic-comic effects of the inexorable and distressing collapse into senility and the way in which memory and yearning come to the fore as a mix of poignancy and wit. The balance between the grim and the touchingly comic is delicately maintained a ...
Onsigbaar verken opnuut verskeie hooftemas van Cloete se oeuvre, onder meer ’n verwondering oor die natuur, en ’n soeke na sintese tussen wetenskap, religieuse impulse en die grense van taal. Hy verwoord op tegnies vernuftige wyse die onvermoe van die mens om die misterie van die skepping en sy eie bestaan te deurgrond. Hy slaag daarin om iets van die wonder vas te vang, sonder om die enigma te reduseer tot ’n eenduidige slotsom of “betekenis”. ...
