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Touch to Affliction is a text of ruins: ruins of genre, of language, of the city, of the body, of the barbarism of the twentieth century. At once lament, accusation and elegy, this work articulates the crumbling of buildings, the evisceration of language, the inhumanity that arises from patrie. Acclaimed poet Nathalie Stephens walks among these ruins, calling out to those before her who have contemplated atrocity: Martin Buber, Henryk Górecki, Simone Weil. In the end, this work...
| Автор | Nathalie Stephens |
'All of Nichol's work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey through different ways of being. Language is both the poet’s instructor and, through its various permutations, the dominant 'image' of the poem. The [nine] books of The Martyrology document a poet’s quest...
| Автор | bp Nichol |
This poem resembles urban sprawl. This poem resembles the freedom to charge a fee. The fee occurs in the gaps. It is an event. It is not without precedent. It is a moment in which you pay money. It is a tribute to freedom of choice. Reality is a parking lot in Qatar. Reality is an airstrip in Malawi. Meanwhile the expressway encloses, the expressway round and around the perimeters like wagon trains circling the bonfire, all of them, guns pointed, Busby Berkeley in the night sky. Expressway...
| Автор | Sina Queyras |
'All of Nichol's work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey through different ways of being. Language is both the poet’s instructor and, through its various permutations, the dominant 'image' of the poem. The [nine] books of The Martyrology document a poet’s quest...
| Автор | bp Nichol |
What do you get when you cross Lao Tzu and an application for a university teaching application? What do you get when you give W. G. Sebald and Clarice Lispector the ability to speak from the afterlife? What happens if a girl is stopped at a red light for an entire year? In on the Great Joke is a palace of hybridity, where film structure informs poetry, poetry alters the essay, the essay recalibrates the joke. Broadbent has lent her ear to the dead, the living, the voiceless, to give us the...
| Автор | Laura Broadbent |
Croak is a frog-and-girl opera in three parts, played out like a YouTube mashup of mid-century cartoons set to a contemporary pop song. It parades, mutilates, and reacquaints Kermit the Frog with Girl 00010111, Michigan J with Aristophanes, and biblical plagues with caged canaries in a vaudevillian play of time, culture, gender, and narrative. Combining vivisection and classical literature, empirical observation and philosophical speculation, Jenny Sampririsi's grotesque characters splash...
| Автор | Jenny Sampirisi |
Monasteries and gaols: David Foster reflects that during the course of his life the monasteries have emptied while the gaols are doing nicely. Set in Goulburn and its surrounds, where Foster resides, <b><i>The Contemptuary</i></b> is a lament for a dying faith, a commentary on prison life and, perhaps unexpectedly from Foster in this, his sixteenth novel, an unputdownable whodunnit.<br /> <br /><i>'Attempt to characterise Foster's writing and...
| Автор | David Foster |
Pluviophile is a poetic rumination on where language originates and what value it retains to unearth the sacred in postmodernity, among other subjects. The opening poem, “The Place Where Words Go to Die,” winner of the Malahat Review ’s 2016 Far Horizons Poetry Award, imagines an underworld where words are killed and reborn, shedding their signifiers like skin to re-enter the symbiotic relationship with the human, where “saxum [is] sacrificed and born again as saxifrage.” From here the poems...
| Автор | Yusuf Saadi |
Colin Knowles in his Reflections on Life has created a diverse collection of poems exploring the themes of thought, images, fun and love.<br /><br />In The Search, Knowles looks at Dante’s Divine Comedy and provides a modern update. How does a football grand final compare with the Roman emperor’s birthday, see Parallels. Want help in understanding reality: try What is real? Looking to understand love: see My love is like an ocean or I want to hold you and for fun, learn how to make a...
| Автор | Colin E Knowles |
Daniela Cupșe’s poems take the reader into a deep realm, beyond the horizon, as is it is in fact poetry to which the author gives birth from the inner depth of her heart, of her soul, from the blue skies reflecting on the blue abyss of the ocean, sometimes stormy, other times tranquil. The blue embrace of two hearts, and the blues coming from profound, ensconced feelings of love and sadness, at times hidden, other times rebuffed, buried tumultuous or silent. Concealed feelings of a painful yet...
| Автор | Daniela Cupşe |
In this new collection Rustum Kozain, who won both the Ingrid Jonker Prize (2006) and the Olive Schreiner Prize (2007) for This Carting Life, raises his own bar. Groundwork retains strong connections with Kozain's early work, but it does so while simultaneously introducing a group of poems that indicate the promise of work to come. His voice has strengthened and has a new confidence, making the poems (paradoxically) lighter – though they are not without his trademark seriousness. This is a...
| Автор | Rustum Kozain |
Die gedigte in Andries Samuel se debuutbundel bevat dikwels verwysings na argitektuur: die ontwerp van geboue en die konkrete bouwerk wat daarop volg. Dit bepaal die struktuur en eerste vlak van die gedigte, maar word ook herlei tot die mens en die self as die “bouwerk” en die gedig as die vorm (argitektuur) waarbinne die “mens/self” gestalte kry. Die weerloosheid van menswees, die blootstelling aan ruwe emosionele werklikhede en die mens se poging om hom teen hierdie aanslae te verweer, word...
| Автор | Andries Samuel |
Notes from the Dementia Ward is Finuala Dowling’s third collection of verse following on the brilliant and popular I Flying and Doo-Wop Girls of the Universe. This new collection deals in part with the tragic-comic effects of the inexorable and distressing collapse into senility and the way in which memory and yearning come to the fore as a mix of poignancy and wit. The balance between the grim and the touchingly comic is delicately maintained and the subject is imbued with dignity and grace....
| Автор | Finuala Dowling |
Hierdie keur uit al ses digbundels van Adam Small gee ’n beeld van sy onmisbare plek in die verruiming van die Afrikaanse letterkunde. Die meerderheid van die gedigte kom uit Kitaar my kruis en Sê Sjibbolet. Die keur weerspieël deurgaans Small se meelewende kyk in die lotgevalle van die bruin Kaapse werkersklasmense. Dit wys ook sy knap beheersing van humor, ironie en satire om gesagsfigure te hekel, en bowenal sy kreatiewe ontginning van alledaagse spraakvorme, rympies, liedjies en veral sy...
| Автор | Adam Small |
Kwansuis beteken “kamma”, “kastig” of “oënskynlik”. Die gedigte in hierdie bundel is ryk aan metafore en bevat dikwels ’n speelse element wat die leser verras laat. Die rol van die natuur en die onderliggende primordialiteit wat daarmee saamgaan is waarskynlik die belangrikste kenmerk van die gedigte. Temas sluit in die (naderende) dood, bedreiginge, verhoudings, die sprokiesagtige, die mitologiese en die filosofiese. Piet van Rooyen is vir sy romans met die CNA-prys en die M-Net-prys vir...
| Автор | Piet van Rooyen |
Met dié nuwe bundel verse vestig Ronelda S. Kamfer haarself opnuut as hoogs talentvolle en dénkende digter in Afrikaans. Die landskappe Klippenkust en Skipskop figureer in dié gedigte, en ook die karakters Klippie Klip-kop en Sara-Slim-meisie, en Herrij Autshumao en Van Riebeeck. Skeepswrakke onderwater word simbool van verledes wat nooit opgediep is nie. En “oorvertel” van die geskiedenis word uiteindelik “andervertel”, met ironie, fyn humor en ’n spel met taal. grond/Santekraam is ’n...
| Автор | Ronelda S Kamfer |
This Carting Life collects poems that span more than ten years of writing. A fair number of these poems have been published previously in either journals or anthologies, primarily in South Africa, but also abroad in the USA and, in some cases, in translation in France. Within the admittedly small market of poetry (as opposed to other forms of South African literature), the author has some reputation and has recently been awarded the Thomas Pringle Award for a poem published in New Contrast. As...
| Автор | Rustum Kozain |
Breyten Breytenbach se nuwe bundel is in ’n sekere sin ’n terugskouing op die lewe en die digkuns van die digter en het sterk outobiografiese elemente. Die tema van verganklikheid en oud-word loop sentraal, en daarmee saam die wisseling van plek en landskap. Die deernis en empatie met die mens en sy vreemde lewensverlope is aangrypend. Nog selde by hierdie digter het die landskap so ’n primêre en so ’n verhelderende rol gespeel as in hierdie bundel.Eerlike en ongesmukte poësie, kompleks én...
| Автор | Breyten Breytenbach |
Waar sy debuut hoofsaaklik handel oor die verbrokkeling van ’n huwelik in Duitsland – sy “break-up album” – is Al is die maan ’n misverstand ’n tuiskoms, nie net op eie bodem nie, maar ook in ’n nuwe verhouding. Tog is Marais se poësie allermins geluksalig – verlorendheid is steeds die gevoel wat sy digterlike instink onderlê. Hier is praatverse, verse wat doelbewus ingeskryf is teen die gedrae en verhewe metriese trant wat tradisioneel die Afrikaanse poësie kenmerk. Soos die poësie van Raymond...
| Автор | Danie Marais |
A Hundred Silencesis 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,...
| Автор | Gabeba Baderoon |
Danie Marais se derde digbundel, Solank verlange die sweep swaai, is ’n mymerende, soms prewelende, plek-plek tierende besinning oor die Suid-Afrikaanse middelklas-weergawe van die menslike toestand. Dit gaan oor die “roaring 40s” en die eerste onheilspellende tekens van middeljarigheid, oor egskeiding, enkelvaderskap, ontnugtering, ’n geliefde ma wat by die dood omdraai en die skrikwekkende relevansie van gruwelrolprente en popkultuur. Die geweld van die liefde en die verraderlike lugspieëlings...
| Автор | Danie Marais |
Karnaval en Lent word gekenmerk deur die opheffing van die skeiding of grens tussen die digter en die mense en dinge waartussen hy lewe, tot by die punt van volledige vereenselwiging: Die digter staan tussen medeskepper én medevernielers van die aarde; staan voor die kleinste mier én die oorweldigende kosmos. Filosofies en literêr is dit ’n besonder byderwetse en aktuele uitgangspunt, hierdie afbreek van die skanse tussen die een wat kyk en dit wat bekyk word. Maar benewens hierdie...
| Автор | T.T. Cloete |
Die poësie is per definisie iets buitengewoons, dit is waaraan Charl-Pierre Naudé se digkuns by uitstek gestalte gee. Die poësie is ’n ander manier van kyk – die metafoor laat jou iets deur die lens van iets anders sien, en so word die wêreld iets anders, dit word nuut, iets wat van voor ontdek moet word. Die poësie, wys Naudé, is iets wat algemeen aanvaarde waarhede problematiseer, dit vreemd maak sodat dit weer beleef kan word. In Naudé se poësie is die vreemde belangrik. Vreemde ruimtes,...
| Автор | Charl-Pierre Naudé |
Ná veertig jaar is daar weer ’n Afrikaanse digbundel deur Adam Small. Ná Oos Wes Tuis Bes Distrik Ses (1973) het hy demonstratief net in Engels begin dig, en ná sy drama Krismis van Map Jacobs (1983) het sy skrywerstem stil geword. Daar was altyd die vermoede dat hierdie stilte grootliks toegeskryf kon word aan die verwerping wat hy aan die hand van taalgenote ervaar het. Verlede jaar is die Hertzogprys uiteindelik aan hom toegeken, en vanjaar verskyn nie net hierdie digbundel nie, maar ook sy...
| Автор | Adam Small |