Author: Mongane Wally Serote
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780795709494
Category : Laudatory poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Sikhahlel' U-OR
Author: Mongane Wally Serote
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780795709494
Category : Laudatory poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780795709494
Category : Laudatory poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Transcontinental Delay
Author: Simon van Schalkwyk
Publisher: Dryad Press Living Poets
ISBN: 9781990992285
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
In Transcontinental Delay, Simon Van Schalkwyk tracks experiences of imminent arrival and departure, periods of waiting and suspension between destinations, points where the demands of place dissolve into the more anticipatory potentialities of space. Drawing on geographical lexicons familiar to South African localities such as Cape Town and Johannesburg, the collection also captures fleeting encounters with global spaces as far afield as the United Kingdom, Argentina and Sweden. Considering the world from a position of "transcendental homelessness" rather than more conventional expressions of estrangement, alienation, or exile, the poems collected in Transcontinental Delay are attentive to a fundamental sense of unbelonging, registering the moods, tones and attitudes of the visitor and stranger: figures of restlessness and, at times, obscurity, at odds with both the settlements of "home" and the transitory compulsions of travel.
Publisher: Dryad Press Living Poets
ISBN: 9781990992285
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
In Transcontinental Delay, Simon Van Schalkwyk tracks experiences of imminent arrival and departure, periods of waiting and suspension between destinations, points where the demands of place dissolve into the more anticipatory potentialities of space. Drawing on geographical lexicons familiar to South African localities such as Cape Town and Johannesburg, the collection also captures fleeting encounters with global spaces as far afield as the United Kingdom, Argentina and Sweden. Considering the world from a position of "transcendental homelessness" rather than more conventional expressions of estrangement, alienation, or exile, the poems collected in Transcontinental Delay are attentive to a fundamental sense of unbelonging, registering the moods, tones and attitudes of the visitor and stranger: figures of restlessness and, at times, obscurity, at odds with both the settlements of "home" and the transitory compulsions of travel.
Lady Anne
Author: Antjie Krog
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611488168
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Lady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse by Antjie Krog is the first English translation of an award winning book published in Afrikaans in 1989. It engages critically and creatively with a key moment of colonial history—the time Lady Anne Barnard spent at the Cape of Good Hope, from 1797 to 1802. Usually mentioned merely as a witty hostess of fabulous parties, Anne Lindsay Barnard, the daughter of a Scottish Earl and the wife of a colonial administrator, was an independent thinker and a painter and writer of genius. She left diaries, correspondence and watercolors documenting her experiences in this exotic land, the contact zone of colonizers and indigenous peoples. Antjie Krog acts as bard and chronicles an epic about this remarkable heroine’s life in South Africa, and intertwines it with life two hundred years later in the same country but now in the throes of anti-apartheid anger and vicious states of emergency. Krog’s powerful and eloquent bringing together of the past and the present, and the historical and the poetic embodies an experience that is as pertinent and compelling today in a democratic but still turbulent South Africa, as it is in the USA and other places where the intersections of race, identity, power, and language lie at the center of civic life.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611488168
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Lady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse by Antjie Krog is the first English translation of an award winning book published in Afrikaans in 1989. It engages critically and creatively with a key moment of colonial history—the time Lady Anne Barnard spent at the Cape of Good Hope, from 1797 to 1802. Usually mentioned merely as a witty hostess of fabulous parties, Anne Lindsay Barnard, the daughter of a Scottish Earl and the wife of a colonial administrator, was an independent thinker and a painter and writer of genius. She left diaries, correspondence and watercolors documenting her experiences in this exotic land, the contact zone of colonizers and indigenous peoples. Antjie Krog acts as bard and chronicles an epic about this remarkable heroine’s life in South Africa, and intertwines it with life two hundred years later in the same country but now in the throes of anti-apartheid anger and vicious states of emergency. Krog’s powerful and eloquent bringing together of the past and the present, and the historical and the poetic embodies an experience that is as pertinent and compelling today in a democratic but still turbulent South Africa, as it is in the USA and other places where the intersections of race, identity, power, and language lie at the center of civic life.
Dog Eat Dog
Author: Niq Mhlongo
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821444131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Dog Eat Dog is a remarkable record of being young in a nation undergoing tremendous turmoil, and provides a glimpse into South Africa’s pivotal kwaito (South African hip-hop) generation and life in Soweto. Set in 1994, just as South Africa is making its postapartheid transition, Dog Eat Dog captures the hopes—and crushing disappointments—that characterize such moments in a nation’s history. Raucous and darkly humorous, Dog Eat Dog is narrated by Dingamanzi Makhedama Njomane, a college student in South Africa who spends his days partying, skipping class, and picking up girls. But Dingz, as he is known to his friends, is living in charged times, and his discouraging college life plays out against the backdrop of South Africa’s first democratic elections, the spread of AIDS, and financial difficulties that threaten to force him out of school.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821444131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Dog Eat Dog is a remarkable record of being young in a nation undergoing tremendous turmoil, and provides a glimpse into South Africa’s pivotal kwaito (South African hip-hop) generation and life in Soweto. Set in 1994, just as South Africa is making its postapartheid transition, Dog Eat Dog captures the hopes—and crushing disappointments—that characterize such moments in a nation’s history. Raucous and darkly humorous, Dog Eat Dog is narrated by Dingamanzi Makhedama Njomane, a college student in South Africa who spends his days partying, skipping class, and picking up girls. But Dingz, as he is known to his friends, is living in charged times, and his discouraging college life plays out against the backdrop of South Africa’s first democratic elections, the spread of AIDS, and financial difficulties that threaten to force him out of school.
Pretend You Don't Know Me
Author: Finuala Dowling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780374246
Category : African poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The best of Finuala Dowling's funny, poignant and idiosyncratic poetry from four earlier prize-winning collections, with a section devoted to new poems.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780374246
Category : African poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The best of Finuala Dowling's funny, poignant and idiosyncratic poetry from four earlier prize-winning collections, with a section devoted to new poems.
Third World Express
Author: Mongane Wally Serote
Publisher: David Philip Publishers
ISBN:
Category : South African poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher: David Philip Publishers
ISBN:
Category : South African poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The History of Intimacy
Author: Gabeba Baderoon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780795708886
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
"The history of intimacy is the fourth collection by award-winning poet Gabebe Baderoon. Breathtaking intimacies and private hurts are crafted into lyrical form - in poems on desiring what is furtherest from you, memories of a midnight swim, how children work out the laws of existence, the stakes of speaking a forbidden word, elegies to a jazz prodigy, and a beloved poet, and how not to be alone"--Back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780795708886
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
"The history of intimacy is the fourth collection by award-winning poet Gabebe Baderoon. Breathtaking intimacies and private hurts are crafted into lyrical form - in poems on desiring what is furtherest from you, memories of a midnight swim, how children work out the laws of existence, the stakes of speaking a forbidden word, elegies to a jazz prodigy, and a beloved poet, and how not to be alone"--Back cover.
A Hundred Silences
Author: Gabeba Baderoon
Publisher: Kwela Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A Hundred Silences is 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 what is not said, from the silences between words, and how anger can spark 'the taste of blood never too far ...eyes watchful/heavy as bruises'. It is an eloquent, tender collection of poetry, affirming Baderoon as one of the most exciting new voices in South African writing.
Publisher: Kwela Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A Hundred Silences is 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 what is not said, from the silences between words, and how anger can spark 'the taste of blood never too far ...eyes watchful/heavy as bruises'. It is an eloquent, tender collection of poetry, affirming Baderoon as one of the most exciting new voices in South African writing.
If I Could Sing
Author: Keorapetse Kgositsile
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South African poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South African poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This Way I Salute You
Author: Keorapetse Kgositsile
Publisher: NB Publishing
ISBN: 9780795702518
Category : South African poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection consists of a series of poems which pay tribute to women and men - mostly artists and musicians - who have influenced and enriched his life.
Publisher: NB Publishing
ISBN: 9780795702518
Category : South African poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection consists of a series of poems which pay tribute to women and men - mostly artists and musicians - who have influenced and enriched his life.