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Alan Finlay has had six collections of poetry published by small presses. He founded the literary journal Bleksem, was co-editor of donga, and was editor of New Coin from 2003 to 2007. For the past ten years he has lived in Argentina.
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.
In this debut collection of 48 poems, Sizakele Nkosi reflects on her childhood and daily life and relationships in Soweto, the heartbeat of Black Jozi.
“Zabalaza Republic reiterates the need for my people to find value in our blackness. For my generation, the battle against white supremacy culture has taken on psychological implications echoing sentiments of what Du Bois referred to as double consciousness. My poetry comes from the wreck left behind after ethnic and racial collisions. For me, this book represents an optimistic step forward towards healing and a return of black self-love.’’
As Sihle Ntuli describes the essence of his collection, the poems encompass numerous aspects of black alienation resulting from collisions with the white world, which despite the ‘zabalaza’ seemingly having been won in 1994, still remains the ruling environment.
Dream parables and flash fiction exploring timeless contradictions and the nature of reality.
Johannesburg-based author Allan Kolski Horwitz is better known as a poet and an activist involved with several worker organizations, and here he unites these passions.
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