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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. Sedite's 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.

these programs writing other programsthat hire servers and weare the slaves these are the newpogroms of the souland the early warning systemsthe shout into the darkthe light at the heart of the cavehas gone outto return as an altered echoa mirror egosuperior in every wayand as variable as the dialon a moral compassin a world where fake northis king

after troy, Taban lo Liyong's booklength poem, is an expansive and engaging elaboration of two classical Greek texts, Homer's Odyssey and Aeschylus's Oresteia. Its focus is the homecoming from the Trojan war of two hero-kings, Odysseus and Agamemnon. Lo Liyong recreates their thoughts and speech, adding dialogue from other characters, most of them women, who are not given a voice in the original stories. after troy is also a philosophical enqu...

Chris van Wyk's first (and only) book of poems, It Is Time to Go Home, was published in 1979 when he was just 22. He went on to become a well-known and much-loved writer of memoirs, biographies, and children's stories. But he continued to write poems, some were published in literary magazines and some in his autobiographical book Shirley, Goodness & Mercy (2004). This volume brings together a selection of these poems, along with a substantial ...

A woman reluctantly takes on the responsibility of putting her eccentric rebellious mother into a retirement home, and managing her care. She has her own daughter to raise and nurture, a marriage and a business to hold together, and her own psychological troubles due in good part to how she was mothered.my mother, my madness is Colleen Higgs's diary of her mother's last ten years. It is at once funny, harrowing, mundane, chaotic, and full of i...

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'.

The poems in Scrim are written with a taut musicality enhanced by their arrangement on the page. Precise in their language and feeling, they remake the familiar in new and striking ways. About Kotze's 2014 collection The Reckless Sleeper, Kelwyn Sole wrote "With inventive use of line and page and an unusual, but telling, juxtaposition of images, she achieves a poetry that is simultaneously visceral and intellectual. Her poems are at once both ...

In simple vocabulary a naked bone describes complex states of beauty and suffering, often at the borderline where life meets death. In their dreamlike rhythms and images, the poems draw strength from Xhosa culture, Christianity, and elements of nature. They are love poems in the widest sense, embracing the interface between daily life and the spiritual, enacting joy and caring in the face of deprivation and mourning.

Skeptical Erections is a book of startling visual and verbal imagination. In his poems Sapeta describes the deception and self-loathing prevalent in the people he encounters in his world, including (or perhaps especially) himself. Despite their distortions, however, the characters who come alive in these poems are depicted with respect and compassion.

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.

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The night's very restless inyanga is already by the pier, eyes shut, pacing and murmuring the 11th commandment of a new faith. The beer-stained guards have exhausted their shift umpiring since dawn the eternal struggle between mynahs and crows by the rubbish bins. The fishermen, past their third bottle of cane dream of grunters, reek of shad and complain that no ship was hooked even though they cast their lines far in the far gardens of foam. ...

When they began talking of digris She looked at me at my empty silence but you write write poems how come you got no degrees? the stamps in this detention mind turn livid like a charon capsizing in Urine the smudges on my face are debating faeces the wormz these my fingers are typewriter keys the Cry in the raining nyt trying trying to mangle the english sanguage I forget my dreadline is close I have taken my poems I'll get the books when I br...

Papa, I know it took us twenty years to erect your tombstone All along the wind was blowing you away The sun was burning you Your pillow was your hand But now Bila, Mhlahlandlela, rest in peace Do not open the grave and come home wearing shorts Since you left, your wife has remained in the house I've not seen a man sitting on your chair It's still your house Full of trees and vegetables7/8 u ya lithanda isaka la mazambani U ya lithanda isaka l...

Something the dead know is the head held in broken hands, the drooping mouth-hole, a white speck of eye leaking a tough sort of shame, a burnt rubber which blackens blackness and wires which swaddle the victim like a Pharaoh.Something the dead know: Bones whiter than white shall inherit the earth.

I want to give my son a door, to hang across his far room, something to open to close. Something to start. a dark door a light door, a door painted red. It doesn't matter, a door, with hinges open, close keep lightly shut slam. open again that kind of door.A man loves a woman who lives on one continent and is a devoted father to his two sons who live on another - a situation that finds him sometimes in unbearable anguish. That Kind of Door des...