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Poetry frequently warrants an element of autobiography. Broadly, it conveys a truth not produced in fiction. You may find yourself, when reading some of these pieces, with an urge to reach out to the poet, such is their evocatively traumatic content. Yet it is the heartbreak and despair of writer's block that is at the core of much of this verse. There is plenty of tragedy throughout the poems and a sense of existential distress. Yet, moment...

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Eight year old Rosalinde lives in an idyllic version of Africa - vervet monkeys in her garden, the lighthouse that illuminates her bedroom window at night, and Mohini, her mystical Hindu maid who is more maternal than her own mother - until a moment in 1982, when she collides with apartheid and her entire belief system is thrown into chaos.Mainly set on Durban's breathtaking North Coast, over a period of seventeen years, the story moves betwee...

On 30 May, 2016, at 1.52 am, I woke from a dream and scribbled…I am the mother who always loved youSeventy three lines later I had penned a cryptic poem that seemed to contain an urgent message.In my fifth poetry book, I invite you to suspend disbelief and enter the magical world of Butterfly Voyage. A world of cryptic messages, poetry, parables, fables, sketches, and wise quotes that will inspire you to heal old emotional wounds, rewrite dise...

In her third poetry book, Bianca Bowers explores the complexities of love by asking the question: "What if our brains are slaveowners and love was never meant to be imprisoned?"I would not love the ocean if she were shallow and I cannot love you like thisSo I will stop like a hurricane before its death.

We pick flowers, knowing they will die. We press flowers, hoping they will survive."Reading a poem is not so different to picking a flower. Like flowers, there are some poems we want to press between the pages of a book. This book contains eighty six of my most popular poems from my first three books: Death and Life (2014), Passage (2015), and Love Is A Song She Sang From A Cage (2016).

Death is the great disruptor. It thrusts us opposite life's mirror, invites our truthful exploration, and reveals the naked truth from which rebirth is possible and we are free to reinvent ourselves anew."Death and Life is the first poetry book by Bianca Bowers, and includes poems and essays written between 1987 and 2013. Dedicated to those who struggle in their youth, and autobiograhical in nature, she invites you to journey through various p...

In her third poetry book, Bianca Bowers explores the complexities of love by asking the question: "What if our brains areslaveowners and love was never meant to be imprisoned?"I would not love the ocean if she were shallow and I cannot love you like thisSo I will stop like a hurricane before its death.

Take a poetic sojourn on the bridge between dream and reality. In her second book of poetry, Bianca Bowers shifts between consciousness and sleep, reality and dreams, as she seeks to find passage in a restless landscape. "My feet were fused with a 7-lane highway. My spine, dismantled, a map of bones with no instruction." Passage is a surreal and real exploration of the transient spaces that have the power to destabilise our relationships, iden...