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The promise of memory /

This selection of poems - covering the years from 1980 to the present day - expresses the poets personal attempts at making sense of the everyday, ordinary difficulties, and the small victories of life. The offering emphasises, sometimes in an exploratory suggestiveness, how differences should not b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weeder, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Grant Park, South Africa : African Perspectives Publishing, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Preface
  • I know where me from
  • Coloured girls
  • An Elegy for Khwezi
  • Beyond the Night
  • #SAMarch4Gaza: A Prayer
  • Soldier of Tambo
  • Sathima sang
  • Lenten ash
  • A letter to my father
  • Steve Bantu Biko said
  • When the Hills Were Dark
  • A drive-by question in two movements
  • One Love
  • Yesterday
  • Padkos coloured by history
  • Mixed Blood
  • The autumn of Love
  • On our wedding day
  • September child
  • So Much to Declare
  • Ocean View
  • The land is dark
  • Flight of the Spear
  • How Come?
  • Like Langston
  • When Madiba visited Ashton
  • Just outside Ashton
  • A Poet's life
  • Biko
  • Now Is Not the Time
  • Uncoupling
  • Leaving
  • Eina
  • I like my coffee
  • If I was in Cuba today
  • Wealth
  • Where the river flows
  • Thanayi
  • Brutus, Siempre
  • You will never die
  • Alchemy
  • In the name of all
  • For the beauty of it all
  • This poem
  • Uncle Kathy
  • The naming of things
  • Singing, we rise
  • Your hands
  • The Blue Sky
  • Kyle's piano
  • Camissa of the clandestine
  • A Psalm of Solidarity
  • Jericho Walls
  • O sistas of the land
  • A Letter from Factreton, June 1986
  • The dance of falling stars
  • Promise
  • Pandemic piety
  • Glossary.