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Book Synopsis KwaNobuhle Overcast by : Billie, Ayanda
Download or read book KwaNobuhle Overcast written by Billie, Ayanda and published by Deep South. This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KwaNobuhle Overcast is a book of vivid obervations of Billie’s community 20 years into South Africa’s democracy. It describes an inhospitable and sometimes callous KwaNobuhle, its spirit worn away by the harsh toll of survival and political betrayal. The poet remains rooted, borne up by love, family, jazz music, and a stubborn belief in humanity.
Book Synopsis Everything Is A Deathly Flower by : Mohale, Maneo
Download or read book Everything Is A Deathly Flower written by Mohale, Maneo and published by uHlanga. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: dear reader, are you still there? take a second, now. breathe // with me. In one of the most anticipated debut collections of recent years, Maneo Mohale reckons boldly with the experience of – and the reconstruction of a life after – a sexual assault. Mohale’s unapologetic and disarming voice carries through a budding and blooming garden of poetics, rooted in a contemporary southern African tradition, but springing forth in queer and radical new directions. Indeed, this is a work encompassing the full, often contradictory, and seldom complete process of healing: where relations must be chosen as well as made; where time becomes non-linear and language insufficient; where nothing is what it seems, yet everything is what it is.
Book Synopsis The Bavino Sermons by : Rampolokeng, Lesego
Download or read book The Bavino Sermons written by Rampolokeng, Lesego and published by Deep South. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Orlando West, Soweto, in Johannesburg, Lesego Rampolokeng is a poet, novelist, playwright, filmmaker and writing teacher who rose to prominence in the 1980s, a turbulent period in South Africa’s history. Originally published in 1999, The Bavino Sermons includes such memorable poems as ‘Lines for Vincent’, ‘Riding the victim train’, ‘To Gil Scott-Heron’, ‘Crab attack’,‘Rap Ranting’ and ‘The Fela Sermon’.
Download or read book Absent Tongues written by Kelwyn Sole and published by Modjaji Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absent Tongues is Kelwyn Sole's sixth collection of poetry; a collection that speaks of tenderness, anger, ambivalence and fear. This is territory Kelwyn has long made his own - hymnal vignettes that thread the landscape of South Africa with patterns of myth and people, with pasts, presents, and, at times, with futures. We come away from these poems with something akin to nostalgia, something like a yearning to belong in the most fundamental sense - to be water, air, bone, sky. Kelwyn Sole writes with grace, acuity and with thoughtful philosophical purpose, affirming his position in the forefront of contemporary South African poetry.
Download or read book Yellow Shade written by Dimakatso Sedite and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yellow Shade evokes the stark textures of township and rural community life: the beauty and passion, the cruelty and humour, the noise, music and stillness. Sedites poems are constructed from unpredictable images a rain-sniffing wind, the knuckles of chairs, a cupboard wailing like a dog left alone in a garage in a gritty language entirely her own.
Book Synopsis This Body is an Empty Vessel: Poetry by : Beaton Galafa
Download or read book This Body is an Empty Vessel: Poetry written by Beaton Galafa and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is poetry that is personal yet spreading to have its tentacles struggling to grip into other equally slippery facets of life. In brief, Beaton writes his poetry to assuage his personal feelings yet in so doing he ends up massaging our shared experience - as Malawians, Africans and just as humans. Beaton has observed, learnt, and is growing in the Malawian poetry space. Thus, he also comes to the stage bearing the Malawian influence on his poetry.
Book Synopsis Unlikely by : Cousins, Colleen Crawford
Download or read book Unlikely written by Cousins, Colleen Crawford and published by Modjaji Books. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlikely is a collection of poems by Colleen Crawford Cousins written over decades of reading and writing poetry. The collection is a distillation of a quiet, powerful voice that is an offering of love in a world and life that has been filled with light and anguish.
Book Synopsis Ancestors and Other Visitors by : Stevenson, D.
Download or read book Ancestors and Other Visitors written by Stevenson, D. and published by University of Namibia Press. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursued through poetic pastures of faith, love, and time by an Omuhimba muse who alternately challenges and enchants him, D. Stevenson presents Ancestors and Other Visitors, a poetry anthology that is as sweepingly existential as it is personal and as sagely simple as it is complex. An immigrant, artist and spoken wordsmith observing the world through a traveler soul, Stevenson journeys through time and literary style to pay homage to influence such as e.e. cummings, W.B. Yeats and Robert Hayden in a wonderfully intimate selection of poems. Set primarily in Windhoek, Namibia, Stevenson’s home of 37 years, Ancestors is at once a musing on self, surroundings and the local artists who inflame his imagination: a young Namibian painter, a dance troupe that inspired ‘Arc magnificent’ and ‘Unseen’, with original ballet, and the assorted upcoming poets who fees his passion and whose stage he shares. Offering up exposition as well as desperate, imagined and curious conversations. Ancestors is a welcome and unprecedented addition to the Namibian poetry landscape.
Book Synopsis This is Not a Poem by : Inya, Richard
Download or read book This is Not a Poem written by Inya, Richard and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Inya’s This is Not a Poem as deceptively titled throws up a lot of lines that plaintively probe into the reader’s reasoning and sense of right and wrong. The poems are highly evocative and drum in rhythmic cadence a sort of impatience with our seeming contentment with the anomalies of our society.
Download or read book Walking, Falling written by Sole, Kelwyn and published by Deep South. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking, Falling is Kelwyn Sole’s seventh collection of poetry. It extends and deepens themes that emerged in his earlier books: love and human relationships; the exposing of false and clichéd perspectives in our socio-political life; our relationship as South Africans to land and landscape. Rustum Kozain has written about his work: “Whether the theme is the end of a relationship or the murder of immigrants, there is the calm look of analysis, a voice, like a conscience, that threatens to disturb the reader’s complacency, but a voice simultaneously gentle with empathy and sincerity.”
Book Synopsis The Mushroom Summer of Skipper Darling by : Voss, Tony
Download or read book The Mushroom Summer of Skipper Darling written by Voss, Tony and published by uHlanga. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut collection from one of Southern Africa’s most astute critics of poetry, born in 1935, is a treasure. A collection that accomplishes that rare thing in poetry: of being an immediate pleasure even as it demands re-reading and slow contemplation. With classical form and meter meeting modern sensibility and local image, The Mushroom Summer of Skipper Darling fills a gaping absence in South African letters, and will kickstart an appreciation anew of a strong, steady and significant influence on this country’s literature. “I have tried to write poetry ever since I can remember,” says the author, “with varying degrees of success, having published poems intermittently over the years. As an academic I found that the critical faculty sometimes interfered with the creative in both the writing of my own poetry and the appreciation of others’. In retirement, the critical and the creative seem to have become more cooperative. “A poem can come from anywhere, but more often than not these days it will spring out of, give admission to and offer a release from, memory. Quite often a poem turns out to be my half of a conversation, and I can only hope that my imagination admits the reader to a realm where words mean what they say. While understanding may not come at once, a poet hopes to offer enough to catch and hold the reader on first reading.”
Book Synopsis The Colours of our Flag by : Allan Kolski
Download or read book The Colours of our Flag written by Allan Kolski and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-09-22 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of poems by Allan Kolski Horwitz and illustrated by the painter James de Villiers was awarded the 2020 Olive Schreiner Award for poetry. Kolski Horwitzs poetry encompasses sensually charged relationships and encounters between men and women, examinations of political realities (including the lives of artists and revolutionaries) and imagistic depictions of natural phenomena. This collection, comprising 80 poems written over the past three years, represents a further collaboration with de Villiers the collection There are Two Birds at my Window (published in 2014) having been the first. James de Villiers has worked with Botsotso for over ten years and produced soundscapes for two Botsotso cds of poetry.
Book Synopsis Failing Maths and My Other Crimes by : Jijana, Thabo
Download or read book Failing Maths and My Other Crimes written by Jijana, Thabo and published by uHlanga. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a whirlwind of local history, contemporary culture, domestic angst, and nostalgia, Thabo Jijana’s debut collection of award-winning poems exhibits an emotional wisdom beyond the writer’s years. Earthen and edgy, musical and minimal, Failing Maths and My Other Crimes is not solely a meditation on family and mortality, nor just a manifesto on the role of art in a young man’s life: beyond all, this collection is a short masterclass in South African storytelling-in-verse.
Download or read book Dangerous Pastime written by Inyang, Ekpe and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best way to understand a people is to live with the people; the best way to live with the people is to share with the people; and the best thing to share with the people is what the people need. The risks and perils of not heeding this age old wisdom are at the heart of Dangerous Pastime.
Book Synopsis The Fourth Masquerade by : Yeibo, Ebi
Download or read book The Fourth Masquerade written by Yeibo, Ebi and published by Kraft Books. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most important Nigerian poets who continue to write the nation in verse, Yeibo, in this fifth collection of poems, has strategically fashioned a kind of poetry that does not only derive its idiom from the prosody and folk tradition of the Izon of Nigeria, it equally advances the poet’s vision through form and structure. His recourse to folklore and reliance on oral materials in the image making process gives coherence and form to the poems. However, what distinguishes this collection from the previous ones is the question of the form through which he demonstrates an intense awareness of the Nigerian experience.
Book Synopsis Crossroads of Dreams by : Franklin Agogho
Download or read book Crossroads of Dreams written by Franklin Agogho and published by Spears Media Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossroads of Dreams is a steamy potpourri of poetry by Franklin Agogho, Jude A. Fonchenalla and M.D. Mbutoh which redefine representations of African youth through the prisms of politics, emigration and the enduring threat of underdevelopment. How would one explain the persistence of poverty and oppression in Africa amidst the superabundance of natural and human resources? In their search for answers, the poets not only chastise but also to point to a verdant and promising future – free of corruption, greed, violence and neo-colonialism. Other themes covered in the anthology include gender, identity and family ties. Animated by three distinctive styles, the eighty-eight poems in this volume will surely enrage, provoke laughter, sorrow, disgust but also hope, courage and visions of a promising Africa in all its splendour and tribulations.
Book Synopsis Between Worlds by : Rosabelle Boswell
Download or read book Between Worlds written by Rosabelle Boswell and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of the climate crisis and declining ocean health, humans are increasingly in a liminal space between this world and imaginary, alien worlds to come. The poems raise the issue of climate change by foregrounding the centrality, beauty, and significance of the ocean, and of marine life to humanity. They suggest that all species live 'between worlds': between fantasy and reality, dreaming and wakefulness, intuition and consciousness, water and air. We need all worlds to survive. Serendipitously, the poems were composed between dusk and dawn. They are both part-thoughts and whole thoughts that come to inspire my ethnographic writing.
