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Poems by: Alcman, Sappho & Ibycus A limited edition of 950 copies hardcover published by Knopf in 1945 Brown cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, slipcase is damaged at the bottom Packaging and Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation **DAVE**

Poems of a South African - The Collected Verse of A. Vine Hall A fourth edition hardcover published by Longmans in 1931 Green cloth covers with gold writing to the spine & front cover, loss to spinetop & insect damage to cover boards, binding is tight & strong, foxing & agecolour to pages, Postage inside South Africa R30.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quote

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About the product Signed by the author on the title page, with his gift inscription, dated Christmas 1966, to front free endpaper. 12mo; original purple boards, lettered in gilt on upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 32; illustrations by John Lawrence. Dustwrapper a little edgeworn; scattered foxing. Good condition."Butler's poetry brings into clear focus qualities he has variously shown as a man, a soldier, a teacher, and a dramatist - among them his humanity, warmth, and joie de vivre. How remarkable is its unforced naturalness: this is the hard-won product of a whole culture and a mature talent. From the impressionability of his boyhood and adolescence comes his intimate sense of place and atmosphere, and from his good nature such affectionate portraits as those of Uncle Danby and the Farmer."- From the Introduction by William Plomer

Into the Okavango, The africa Poems and Photographs Poems by Marianne Harding Burgoyne Photographs by Marianne & Robert H Burgoyne A first edition hard cover published by the authors in 2005 Brown leatherette cover boards with gold writing to the spine & front cover, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, every page is glossy colour photos with poems. Dustjacket is complete & not priceclipped no marks no nicks or tears clean & bright, a magnificent coffee table book. Postage within South Africa will be R50-00 Overseas buyers can contact us for a postal quote. abe #06401

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days "The earth near our place/ was cradle, / it rocked us-- / became our skin. / House doors opened, / spilled us out, / we disappeared into trees-- / they clothed us in delirious green. /... We knew the song / of this place, made it up, / sang it--" Homestead life is often romanticized as a valiant, resilient family persisting in the clean isolation of pristine wilderness, living off the land and depending only on each other. But there can be a darker side to this existence. Linda Schandelmeier was raised on a family homestead six miles south of the fledgling town of Anchorage, Alaska in the 1950s and '60s. But hers is not a typical homestead story. In this book, part poetic memoir and part historical document, a young girl comes of age in a family fractured by divorce and abuse. Schandelmeier does not shy away from these details of her family history, but she also recognizes her childhood as one that was unique and nurturing, and many of her poems celebrate homestead life. Her words hint at her way of surviving and even transcending the remoteness by suggesting a deeper level of human experience beyond the daily grind of homestead life; a place in which the trees and mountains are almost members of the family. These are poems grounded in the wilds that shimmer with a mythic quality. Schandelmeier's vivid descriptions of homesteading will draw in readers from all types of lives. Features Summary An Alaska Homestead Memoir. Author Linda Schandelmeier Publisher University of Alaska Press Release date 20180901 Pages 90 ISBN 1-60223-360-8 ISBN 13 978-1-60223-360-7

 Where the Wind Wills: New Poems by Geoffrey Haresnape   Where the Wind Wills  brings together some forty new poems by Geoffrey Haresnape, one of South Africa’s long established poets still producing fresh work. Some have been published in journals, others presented at live poetry readings in Cape Town, and others will make their first appearance in this book — none have appeared in his previous books. This is Haresnape’s fifth collection of poetry. Since his first book appeared in 1976, he has published steadily in literary magazines and anthologies both nationally and overseas, received a wide range of positive reviews, and developed a strong readership.        

Selected Poems 1961-1994 - By Patrick Cullinan First Edition, Soft Cover, Published By Snailpress 1994 Cover Boards Have Minimal Rubbing To The Edges. Binding Is Tight & Strong. Inscription Inside Front Cover Board In Blue Pen. Light Browning & Minimal Foxing To The Pages. Postage Within South Africa Will Be R30.00 Overseas Buyers Can Contact Us For A Postal Quote. ABE # 06344

A Mind in Revolt - Essays and Poems By: Kriben Pillay ***Signed Copy*** A first edition softcover published by the author in 1986 Picture cover boards are ageworn, binding is tight & strong, SIGNED by the author with a gift inscription on back of the front cover Postage within South Africa R30.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation abe #

Author: Thomas Pringle Editors: Ernest Pereira and Michael Chapman Publisher: University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press (1989) ISBN-10: 0869806866 ISBN-13: 9780869806869 Condition: Very Good Binding: Softcover Pages: 177 Dimensions: 20.2 x 14.3 x 1 cm +++ by Thomas Pringle +++ The African poems of Thomas Pringle wrestle with issues that are still alive in South Africa today - racial conflict, political oppression, censorship and the need for freedom of expression. This volume reproduces Poems Illustrative of South Africa which appeared in 1934 and reflects Pringle's residence at the Cape for six years from 1820.

 Extremely Rare, undated, edition unknown, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London and Melbourne, Un-dated Circa, Early 1900's.   Hard cover, green cloth boards, blind stamped design to front board and along the spine, Gilt title and publisher to spine, boards are slightly bumped, head and tail of spine, some light shelf scuffing to extremities, end papers browning, no inscriptions.  first few and last few pages have some foxing, upper edge of book block dust stained, some marks along edges of book block. Beautifully illustrated dust jacket, un-clipped, dust jacket is scuffed and chipped with minor loss, has some closed tears. A magnificent copy of a lesser known Poet who emanated from Scotland, was educated in England, and made his mark in the South Australian Parliament, His poetry is described in the biography as Byronic. A scarce and collectible edition.        

Buy Afar in the Desert and other South African Poems Thomas Pringle 1881- edited John Noble 1st Edition for R289.00

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days This smart, lyrical collection explores the dangers of a world so complex that no single consciousness may grasp it--however much the attempt must be made. Following historical and imagined figures as they encounter specific moments or objects (such as Thomas Hariot in the Ameri-can Wilderness of the late 16th century), the poems attempt to record the unraveling of the safe and singular into a multiplicity of unknowns. Impelled by metaphor and lilting repetition, "North True South Bright "seeks a sense of the world, and ultimately, a sense of the Infinite. Hariot's Round I know, to entice, to convince, I must sing Your ear inside stone, must sing Gold bitten and true, the corn kernel, one seed, I must plant one gold seed in your mouth with my lips. Raleigh says: the Queen known my name. The Crown Of a "woodpecker" is ruby, but shy. Inhabitants adorn themselves with feathers, and feathers Bright on arrow ends. Bow--before a Queen. Bend closed my book. The page is deaf that turns back to look at what it found." "In "North True South Bright," Dan Beachy-Quick proves the compass of his eye to be perfectly exact, precisely true. These poems are finely made contemporaries of sunlight. And, like sunlight, their history is Now."--Donald Revell Features Summary This lyric debut collection is grounded in history and nature. Author Dan Beachy-Quick Publisher Alicejamesbooks Release date 20030501 Pages 80 ISBN 1-882295-38-2 ISBN 13 978-1-882295-38-8

Metelerkamp's fifth book of poems was written after the suicide of her mother. The book is a sequence of poems, with Latin subtitles taken from sections of the Requiem Mass. The relationship between the poem and the mass is often oblique, tangential, ironic, and sometimes also direct. Written in Metelerkamp's distinctive musical voice, the sequence articulates the process of mourning, exploring the issues of life and death. The poems record a layered search for some meaningful explanation of the ambiguous connection between love and destruction. Title: Requiem Author: Joan Metelerkamp Publisher: Deep South Paperback, 67pages ISBN: 9780958454216  

Author: Mxolisi Nyezwa Publisher: University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press (2008) ISBN-10: 1869141695 ISBN-13: 9781869141691 Condition: Very Good. The cover has some light scratches and a bit of wear to edges. Binding: Softcover Pages: 69 Dimensions: 22.0 x 14.5 x 0.6 cm +++ by Mxolisi Nyezwa +++ For days I looked for my poems in the streets, and since I could not find them, light fell like a flower on the lonely square. The light sounded the drum of a thud, beauty came grovelling forward begging, and children went for days without food. Poetry is a simple way to remind us of our humanity. It guards against placing blind faith in the sciences which are constricting to the human spirit. In poetry, we discover our basic selves. Intensely lyrical and deeply expressionist, the poems of New Country register the intuitiveness of Mxolisi Nyezwa's vision of his land and his life. Nyezwa has carved for himself a voice and a style that is entirely his own and unlike any South African poet before him.

Sun of Tabriz. a Lyrical Introduction to Higher Metaphysics: Selected Poems of Jalalu'ddin Rumi Translated by Sir Colin Garbett Illustrator Sylvia Baxter Year 1964 Publisher: Johnston & Neville, Cape Town, South Africa Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition          

 A first  edition of this book produced by Bernard Sachs,Published by Gryphon Poets,Johannesburg,1972. The poems are by Sinclair Beiles with woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes. The book is in good condition and the soft board cover is  little bumped and marked but not too noticeably.Postage free within South Africa.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days 'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.' Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain's greatest living writer. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space. Features Summary One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry - all complete... Author Javier Marias Publisher Penguin Classics Release date 20180222 Pages 64 ISBN 0-241-33948-0 ISBN 13 978-0-241-33948-0

  The Complete Poetry Resource Fourth Edition Prescribed Poems & Learning Materials Used by over 120 Top South African Schools and Thousands of Past Students  

How to Open the Door Lonely lovely lyric, these poems tell a uniquely South African story in a uniquely South African voice. Who would want to read them? Anyone interested in the recent inflections of various Englishes and anyone interested in inflections of the 'soul'. Author Marike Beyers ISBN 9781928215202 Format Paperback Pages 62p.

  Cape Drives Hope, C   Item Description: London Magazines Edition, London, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. 50 pp.Spine of the dust-jacket, faded. A copy of the Author's first book that won the Thomas Pringle Prize and the Cholmondeley Award. Very good with minimal shelf wear. The following information is taken from the Contemporary Writers website. Christopher Hope's poems were first published in Whitewashes (1971), but his first significant publication was Cape Drives (1974), which won the Thomas Pringle Prize and a Cholmondeley Award. His published poetry also includes In the Country of the Black Pig (1981) and Englishmen (1985). His first novel, A Separate Development (1981), was banned in South Africa. A rich, comic satire of the apartheid system, it won the David Higham Prize for Fiction. His other novels include Kruger's Alp (1984), which won the Whitbread Novel Award; The Hottentot Room (1986), set in a London drinking club, a home from home for South African exiles; and My Chocolate Redeemer (1989), the story of an unlikely friendship between a 15-year-old girl and an exiled dictator. More recent novels include Serenity House (1992), a black comedy set in an old people's home in London, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Darkest England (1996). Hard Cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Black Boards + Gilt Spine. Jacket: Very Good +. Bookseller Inventory # 00740 Tall  Stories  Price: R 250.00 Ordinary  postage  within  South  Africa: R 40.00

1980. Soft cover; 63 pages. Very good condition. Slightly bumped upper corner. Minor edgewear. Under 1kg. Illustrated with woodcuts by various African artists Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali was born in Kwabhanya (Vryheid), KwaZulu-Natal in 1940. After completing secondary school in he went to Soweto hoping to study social work. Apartheid legislation prevented his enrolment but he studied via correspondence, obtaining a diploma with Premier School of Journalism and Authorship, affiliated to London University. He worked as a messenger in Johannesburg, drawing on his observations of the city to write the poems that became his first collection, Sounds of a Cowhide Drum. Published by Lionel Abrahams of Renoster in 1971, with a foreword written by Nadine Gordimer, this book went on to become the best-selling poetry book in South African history. Following the extraordinary success of his debut, Mtshali went in 1974 to study at the International Writers’ Program at the University of Iowa. This was followed by undergraduate studies at the New School of Social Research, and an MFA from Columbia University. His second collection,  Fireflames, was published in 1980, whilst working as a deputy headmaster at Pace Commercial College in Jabulani, Soweto. With it overt criticism of the government, it was banned. After a stint working for the South African Council of Churches he returned in 1988 to Columbia University to pursue his doctoral studies. He taught in the USA until his return to South Africa in 2007. 

David Philip, 2005, As new PB.   To mark the 50th anniversary of the South African Council for English Education, this collection brings together the work of writers who either edited English Alive or were originally published in English Alive. Now they are active writers - poets, playwrights, novelists, print journalists, radio journalists, TV scriptwriters. They have contributed from their work a variety of pieces - truly a celebration of writing - that range from travel writing in verse through eye-witness accounts and poems and diary-entries and movie reviews to biographical and historical investigation and writing for teens and for children. And each writer offers a short reflection 'On Writing'. Some of South Africa's foremost writers are joined here by new voices, and the collection is graced by a gift contribution from South Africa's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Nadine Gordimer. 248 pp.