Ten South African Poets

Ten South African Poets PDF Author: Adam Schwartzman
Publisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Brings together selections of ten outstanding South African poets, to show, in writing drawn from more than four decades, from very different cultures and traditions, a vital and diverse literature. Representing a vision of a pluralistic Africanism the anthology takes the poetry of the region away from the dichotomy which apartheid promoted.

The Paperbook of South African English Poetry

The Paperbook of South African English Poetry PDF Author: Michael Chapman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South African poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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I’Ve Come to Take You Home

I’Ve Come to Take You Home PDF Author: Diana Ferrus
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456891731
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 107

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Diana Ferrus was born in Worcester in 1953 and completed her high school career in 1972. She completed a postgraduate degree in Womens and Gender studies at the University of the Western Cape where she works as an administrator in the Dept of Industrial Psychology. Diana is a writer, poet, performance poet and story-teller. Her work in both Afrikaans and English has been published in various collections and some serve as prescribed texts for high school learners. Her publishing house, Diana Ferrus Publishers has published various publications including her first Afrikaans collection of poetry, Ons Komvandaan. Diana co-edited and published a collection of stories about fathers and daughters, Slaan vir my n masker, Vader in 2006. The mission of her publishing company is to publish writers from previously disadvantaged communities. Her company in association with the University of the Western Cape has published life stories of three former activists and unionists namely, Liz Nana Abrahams, Zollie Malindi and Archie Sibeko. These publications contain rich material about South Africas past and some are prescribed texts at the University of the Western Cape. She is a founder member of the Afrikaanse Skrywersvereniging (ASV), Bush Poets (all women poets) and Women in Xchains (grassroots women writers). Diana has attended numerous literary festivals locally and abroad. In 2006 she performed her poetry at the Klein Karoo Kunstefees with the Mamela band. They received a Kanna-award for the best contemporary music. At this very festival Diana received a Kanna-award for her contribution to Afrikaans. However Diana Ferrus is internationally known and acclaimed for the poem that she wrote for the indigenous South African woman Sarah Bartmann who was taken away from her country under false pretences and paraded as a sexual freak in Europe. Dianas work has had and still has a bearing and influence on matters of race, gender, class and reconciliation. She is popular amongst South Africans of all race groups. She believes in her countrys future and works tirelessly for her peoples emancipation from racial, sexual and class exploitation as well as reconciliation.

The New Century of South African Poetry

The New Century of South African Poetry PDF Author: Michael J. F. Chapman
Publisher: Ad Donker Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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The New Century of South African Poetry presents the challenges of a new millennium. From a 'post-apartheid' perspective, South Africa rejoins the world as it seeks a home. Simultaneously, it searches the past for a shared though diverse inheritance.

Ten South African Poets

Ten South African Poets PDF Author: Adam Schwartzman
Publisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Book Description
Brings together selections of ten outstanding South African poets, to show, in writing drawn from more than four decades, from very different cultures and traditions, a vital and diverse literature. Representing a vision of a pluralistic Africanism the anthology takes the poetry of the region away from the dichotomy which apartheid promoted.

Everything Is A Deathly Flower

Everything Is A Deathly Flower PDF Author: Mohale, Maneo
Publisher: uHlanga
ISBN: 0639810829
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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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.

Lady Anne

Lady Anne PDF Author: Antjie Krog
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611488168
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 125

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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.

I Am An African

I Am An African PDF Author: Wayne Visser
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 095708174X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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This creative collection brings together Africa poems by South African poet and writer, Wayne Visser, including the ever popular "I Am An African", as well as old favourites like "Women of Africa", "I Know A Place in Africa", "Prayer for Africa" and "African Dream". The anthology celebrates the luminous continent and its rainbow people. The updated 5th Edition includes new poems like "Africa Untamed" and "Land of the Sun".

Collective Amnesia

Collective Amnesia PDF Author: Koleka Putuma
Publisher: Koleka Putuma
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Since its publication in April 2017, Collective Amnesia has taken the South African literary scene by storm. The book is in its twelfth print run and is prescribed for study at tertiary level in South African Universities and abroad. The collection is the recipient of the 2018 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, named 2017 book of the year by the City Press and one of the best books of 2017 by The Sunday Times and Quartz Africa. It is translated into Spanish (Flores Rara, 2019), German (Wunderhorn Publishing House, 2019), Danish (Rebel with a Cause, 2019), Dutch (Poeziecentrum, 2020), Swedish (Rámus förlag). Forthcoming translations: Portuguese (Editora Trinta Zero Nove), Italian (Arcipelago itaca) and French (éditions Lanskine). Collective Amnesia examines the intersection of politics, race, religion, relationships, sexuality, feminism, memory and more. The poems provoke institutions and systems of learning and interrogates what must be unlearned in society, academia, relationships, religion, and spaces of memory and forgetting.

Xhosa Oral Poetry

Xhosa Oral Poetry PDF Author: Jeff Opland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521241137
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Book Description
This book, first published in 1983, was the first detailed study of the Xhosa oral poetry tradition.

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry PDF Author: Gerald Moore
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141181004
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Book Description
Offers a selection of African poetry arranged by country