A place to night in
R170In this poetry collection, Frank Meintjies navigates, to quote one of the poems, “the land, the land, the land” and engages with issues of dislocation, diverse landscapes, nature, attachments to place, and community.
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Out of stockA womb that beats all over the world – Sunday mornings at the river
R300A truly unique anthology of poems from various African voices.
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Bella
R80Bella is an illustrated collection of striking yet subtle poems. Motadinyane died in 2003, and was one of the founder members of the Botsotso Jesters poetry performance group; her surreal and multi-lingual work offers a sharp female perspective on South Africa.
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Everybody is a Bridge
R120In this way, the collection is varied, and very personal and true to Anton’s past and present, a very satisfying buffet that offers a unique taste of his Buddhistic soul.
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Failing Maths and My Other Crimes
R140In a whirlwind of local history, contemporary culture, domestic angst, and nostalgia, Thabo Jijana’s debut collection of award-winning poems exhibits an emotional wisdom beyond the writer’s years.
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Flame In The Snow – The Love Letters Of Andre Brink & Ingrid Jonker (Hardcover)
R330In a telegram dated 29 April 1963, thirty-year-old Afrikaans poet Ingrid Jonker thanks André Brink, a young novelist of twenty-eight, for flowers and a letter he sent her. In the more than two hundred letters that followed this telegram, one of South African literature’s most famous love affairs unfolds. Jonker’s final letter to Brink is dated 18 April 1965. She drowned herself in the ocean at Three Anchor Bay three months later.
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Hungry on Arrival
R120I believe poetry like jazz, allows one to knock on the void of silence. In this way I celebrate the lives of artists and poets such as Mafika Gwala, Jackson Hlungwani, Kippie ‘Morolong’ Moeketsi and Fana Zulu.
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Inhabiting Love
R120Abu 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.
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Inside an Eyeball
R170A 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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Notes from the Dream Kingdom
R160This 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.
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On Days Such As This
R120From 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
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Questions for the sea (Paperback)
R170Lyrical, 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.
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Returning Signs
R170The 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.
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Rubble
R170In 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.
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Saving Water: Poems by Allan Kolski Horwitz
R100These 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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Stanza Poetry No. 12
R130An open space where poetry matters. Stanzas is a quarterly for new poetry to suit all moods. It provides a platform for established and emerging poets to share their most recent work and affirm poetry’s important place in our lives. “The sound must seem an echo of the sense.”
