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Abu Bakr Solomons continues his exploration of the unfolding social and political milieu -worlds in transition – both locally and globally; the threats and compelling beauty which coexist in these complex human tragedies and triumphs so that the past and the present intersect in the psyches and consciousness of individuals and delivery of social movements.
A book of many secrets dedicated to the strangers all over the world
The collection deals with strange and mysterious subject matter such as mysticism, surrealism, Middle Eastern mythology, and dreams.
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Out of stockA re-imagining of the fable in terms of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, in a variety of theatrical styles, catalyzing debate and transferring knowledge through humor, satire and drama.
An imaginary encounter between historical novelist Mary Renault and her hero Alexander the Great, each of them with the same sex life partner , Julie Mullard and Hephais-tion. Renault and Mullard lived in seaside suburb of Camps Bay in Cape Town.
This collection of six plays by South Africa’s leading playwright and actor features works written between 1984 and 1993. The works included are Under the Oaks, Over the Hill, Boo to the Moon, Smallholding, Mooi Street Moves (Vita Playwright of the Year) and The Return of Elvis du Pisanie (winner of the 1992/93 IGI Life Vita Award).
Out of stockMy Life is based on the diaries of five South African girls who were growing into womanhood in 1994. The perspective of each young woman on her country and her people is conveyed with a mixture of naivety, exuberance, warmth and humour. A small Karoo town provides the setting for Valley Song, which explores the theme of youth in search of itself, and provides a lyrical metaphor for the new South Africa in which it was set, and has been termed one of Fugard’s most endearing plays.
“‘Newfoundland’ contains all the elements and facets which originated in the amphitheatre of the classic Greeks such as ritual, confrontations and the exertions of fate, yet allowing the human being freedom of choice.
This poem began as a meditation on the experience of migration, loss of home, relocation and cross-cultural encounters. Ultimately, the poem became an exploration of what it means to find “home,” both physically and emotionally, personally and politically.
Nothing but the Truth is a story of two brothers, of sibling rivalry, of exile, of memory and reconciliation, of the perplexities of freedom
From the unusual opening poem (conflating birth with a car crash) to its close (an abandoned suitcase representing an entire lifetime), this book weaves its stories backwards and forwards through time and place
Lyrical, lilting and lachrymose, Stephen Symons’ debut collection of poems fearlessly voyages through the vast and unknowable depths of ocean and adulthood. In sparse, yet gorgeously flowing verse, Symons gives in to the currents of love, war, nostalgia and fatherhood, bringing a new sensitivity to South African poetry; creating a collection infused with an all encompassing awe for the majesty and mystery of the natural world, and humanity’s every changing place in it.
Out of stockA white woman brings up the born free black girl in Cape Town suburbia– in the process alienating her from the rest of her township
family.
The poems seek to explore language and sound (the ‘signs’), how they relate to meaning (and to poetry), and how they ‘return’ again and again, as though locked in certain patterns.
In this, his third collection of poetry, Solomons foregrounds portraits as well as memories of personal shifts, and reflections in the context of a broad national and global milieu ruptured, intermittently, by pandemics and political upheavals.
These poems cover many different states of mind and situations and are deeply rooted in South Africa but also travel to other continents.
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