{"title":"Poetry, Drama \u0026 Plays","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"9781485301073","title":"In a burning sea","description":"\u003cp\u003ein a burning sea: Contemporary Afrikaans Poetry in Translation aims to address a long-standing need to introduce Afrikaans poetry to a local as well as international audience. While a number of translated works have, in recent years, been made available to the wider South African readership, only a handful of high-profile individuals continue to enjoy international recognition. This anthology is a collection of poems from contemporary poets who are actively writing and publishing and whose work is a good reflection of the current trends evident in Afrikaans literature. The editor hopes it will go some way towards remedying the present lack of exposure and encourage future publications offering translations of writing also representative of the broader traditions of historical and twentieth-century Afrikaans poetry. \u003cbr\u003eIn compiling the anthology, the editor approached poets who had published at least a second volume of poetry in the years from 2005 to 2011. Some poems were unpublished at the time of the selections but have found a subsequent home in more recent volumes of poems.  Individuals were asked to submit up to ten poems; some offered their own translations, but for the remainder she made use of a panel of excellent English translators. In each case the poet worked in close collaboration with the translator of his or her choice. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Marlise+Joubert+(editor)\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eMarlise Joubert (editor)\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Marlise Joubert (editor)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375543632035,"sku":"9781485301073","price":285.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781485301073_c86664f2-7971-4df2-ad2f-19490d7a64c6.jpg?v=1776549434"},{"product_id":"9780195703313","title":"Boesman and Lena","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet on the Swartkops madflats, just outside Port Elizabeth, the play deals with two squatters. They are on a journey with all their worldly possessions after their shack was bulldozed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Athol+Fugard\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAthol Fugard\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Athol Fugard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375619457187,"sku":"9780195703313","price":404.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780195703313_ae8b77a1-d0dc-418d-adba-1753ec5ff345.jpg?v=1776456910"},{"product_id":"9781834920887","title":"Scent of Places","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn scent of places, the poet describes two modes of travel - geographical and spiritual. The journey begins in Southern Africa, continues in Britain and Europe, and then ends again in Africa.\u003cbr\u003eFellow travellers, landscapes, cities and works of art form the multifaceted and colourful ingredients of her poetry. The poems are, in fact, diary entries of a pilgrim through life. The reader travels along and is enriched by the experience, emerging from it with a broadened perspective. - Daniel Hugo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJuliJana Roussouw received an MA in Creative Research in Poetry from Roehampton University, London. Her chapbook, ra-t, was\u003cbr\u003epublished by Shearsman Books, Oxfordshire, England. \u003cbr\u003eHer poems have been published in South African and UK magazines. \u003cbr\u003eAs juli Jana she has held a number of exhibitions in South Africa and overseas. She presents Word \u0026amp; Visual workshops in Cape Town. \u003cbr\u003eAs both poet and visual artist she expresses herself with the brush and the word. It is a matter of seeing, absorbing and then allowing an overflow of expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+JuliJana+Roussouw\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJuliJana Roussouw\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"JuliJana Roussouw","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375676014755,"sku":"9781834920887","price":300.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781834920887_f0c3502a-44f2-4ac7-b013-1d3b830603d2.jpg?v=1776805453"},{"product_id":"9781431403660","title":"Ingrid Jonker","description":"\u003cp\u003eDubbed the South African Sylvia Plath due to the intensity of her work and the tragic course of her turbulent life, Ingrid Jonker is one of the most iconic figures in Afrikaans literature. Posthumously awarded the Order of Ikhamanga by the South African government for 'her excellent contribution to literature and a commitment to the struggle for human rights and democracy in South Africa', the advanced ideas inherent in Ingrid Jonker's poems have made her a recognised literary figure internationally, with her poems being studied, translated and published in many languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Louise+Viljoen\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eLouise Viljoen\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Jacana-Pocket\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJacana-Pocket\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Louise Viljoen,Jacana-Pocket","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375694069923,"sku":"9781431403660","price":195.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781431403660_6bc83cd8-afd6-4053-bb8c-fb759c17a521.jpg?v=1776535873"},{"product_id":"9781415203859","title":"Skinned","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntjie Krog selects from her most recent poems and also from the poems that best represent her work from across a long career.Part One of Skinned contains poems about writing, family and love. The poems in the second part are from the epic poem based on the life of Lady Anne Barnard, and were written during the height of apartheid, while Part Three offers extracts from several speakers who lived in them and before the likes of Lady Anne arrived. Krog includes here re-workings of Bushmen narratives, as well as translations of oral Sepedi, Xhosa and Zulu praise poems. Part Four represents the political turmoil of South Africa and the divisions within Africa, while Part Five includes recent poems that have to do with the betrayals of the body as we age. Including new poems alongside previously published ones from across the decades, Skinned explores the necessity of 'a change of tongue' in order to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Antjie+Krog\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAntjie Krog\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Antjie Krog","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375745122467,"sku":"9781415203859","price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781415203859_f9d1670f-ccd5-48bf-a876-084923249029.jpg?v=1776531160"},{"product_id":"9781471165825","title":"the sun and her flowers","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Rupi Kaur, the top ten Sunday Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and blooming. It is a celebration of love in all its forms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Sunday Times bestseller milk and honey: \u003cbr\u003e`Kaur is at the forefront of a poetry renaissance' Observer\u003cbr\u003e `Kaur made her name with poems about love, life and grief. They resonate hugely' Sunday Times \u003cbr\u003e`Poems tackling feminism, love, trauma and healing in short lines as smooth as pop music' New York Times \u003cbr\u003e`Caught the imagination of a large, atypical poetry audience...Kaur knows the good her poetry does: it saves lives' Evening Standard \u003cbr\u003e`Breathing new life into poetry...It has people reading, and listening' The Pool\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Rupi+Kaur\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eRupi Kaur\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eIllustrator\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Illustrator+Rupi+Kaur\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eRupi Kaur\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rupi Kaur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375844507811,"sku":"9781471165825","price":400.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781471165825_c3480d7f-dd02-46d2-84a0-3380f5fedb16.jpg?v=1776542111"},{"product_id":"9781449474256","title":"Milk and Honey","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and  femininity.\u003cbr\u003eThe book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Rupi+Kaur\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eRupi Kaur\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rupi Kaur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376679895203,"sku":"9781449474256","price":400.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781449474256_7240a663-bd76-4b0e-a10d-15f316c4397f.jpg?v=1776541105"},{"product_id":"9780868522463","title":"The New Century of South African Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eA revised and updated edition of this much-loved poetry anthology which was first published in 2002. This new edition of The New Century of South African Poetry now includes 125 new poems, with the addition of a fifth section covering works produced by poets who have made their mark since the early 2000s. New Century includes pieces in divergent styles by a wide range of authors - from traditional songs by Khoisan poets to poems by established figures such as Roy Campbell, N.P. van Wyk Louw, Mazisi Kunene, Douglas Livingstone, Mongane Wally Serote and Antjie Krog. Popular poetic forms like maskanda, kiba, praises and rap share the pages with current poets\u003cbr\u003esuch as Gabeba Baderoon, Rustum Kozain, Danie Marais, Nick Mulgrew and Koleka Putuma…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Michael+Chapman\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eMichael Chapman\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Michael Chapman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376749789347,"sku":"9780868522463","price":280.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780868522463_493862a1-8667-4c29-9951-9be8855d96ff.jpg?v=1776516805"},{"product_id":"9781485306948","title":"Afrikaans Poems with English Translations","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis new anthology of Afrikaans poems accompanied by their English translations is an extended and revised edition of Afrikaans Poems with English Translations, edited by A.P. Grové and C.J.D. Harvey and originally published in 1962. Grové and Harvey's anthology gained a certain prominence in its time on which this anthology aims to build. It will also be a continuation of a specific tradition in Afrikaans literature, namely to collate the best and at the same time the most representative poems in an anthology. The aim with this edition was to produce a concise and compact anthology of a hundred of the best poems in Afrikaans; as a result of the near impossibility of such a task the editors ended up including a hundred and thirteen poems. \u003cbr\u003eThis selection will provide the reader with a window on Afrikaans poetry and give some impression of the vibrancy of Afrikaans literature as a whole: it is a literature thematically and structurally grounded in Africa, but at the same time in a variety of international literatures and poetic traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Selected+and+compiled+by:+Hennie+van+Coller\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eSelected and compiled by: Hennie van Coller\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Helize+van+Vuuren\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eHelize van Vuuren\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Louise+Viljoen\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eLouise Viljoen\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+SAAWK\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eSAAWK\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Selected and compiled by: Hennie van Coller,Helize van Vuuren,Louise Viljoen,SAAWK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376892657827,"sku":"9781485306948","price":285.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781485306948_8bae6577-5936-4524-81eb-53aaa972e56d.jpg?v=1776550439"},{"product_id":"9781787631731","title":"Love Poems for Married People","description":"\u003cp\u003eAre you in the mood?\u003cbr\u003eI am.\u003cbr\u003eLet's put the kids down.\u003cbr\u003eHave a light dinner.\u003cbr\u003eShower.\u003cbr\u003eMaybe not drink so much.\u003cbr\u003eAnd do that thing I would rather do with you than with anyone else.\u003cbr\u003eLie in bed and look at our iPhones.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWritten with brilliant wit, sharp observation and a big dose of reality, Love Poems for Married People  takes the poetic form, turns it upside down and leaves it in the dishwasher to dry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIncluding such gems as  Why Are You in The Shower With Me?,  Our Love is Tested in Traffic  and  What Time Should We Leave for the Airport?  John Kenney's poems are packed with funny, wry observations about the reality of life once the initial shine of a relationship has dulled. From parental gripes to dwindling sex lives; from less-than-romantic gifts to irritating personal habits, it's all covered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+John+Kenney\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJohn Kenney\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"John Kenney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376919527587,"sku":"9781787631731","price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781787631731_eb139101-f0fa-40f5-9716-579301983ad0.jpg?v=1776594071"},{"product_id":"9780143132684","title":"Dolefully, A Rampart Stands","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of haunting, image-rich poems about isolation, captivity, and vanishing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in Paige Ackerson-Kiely's third collection are set primarily in the rural northeast of America, and explore rural poverty, entrapment, captivity, violence, and a longing to vanish. Ranging from free verse to a long noir prose poem, they\u003cbr\u003eexamine who her, or our, 'captors' might be. 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De Waal's storytelling gives us the poetry and sorrow of life itself' Financial Times 'Weaving tragedy and joy, big themes and the minutiae of life, this is a love story to take on the classics' Emerald Street 'An emotionally sure-handed novel exploring harrowing terrain with deft sensitivity' Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Kit+de+Waal\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eKit de Waal\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kit de Waal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377034543267,"sku":"9780241973417","price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780241973417_dd3f71b2-4771-4306-873d-3175c0d713eb.jpg?v=1776469021"},{"product_id":"9781911214519","title":"Night Sky with Exit Wounds","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize 'Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.' New Yorker An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects - love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire - and attends to them all with lines that feel newly-minted, graceful in their cadences, passionate and hungry in their tender, close attention: '...the chief of police\/facedown in a pool of Coca-Cola.\/A palm-sized photo of his father soaking\/beside his left ear.' This is an unusual, important book: both gentle and visceral, vulnerable and assured, and its blend of humanity and power make it one of the best first collections of poetry to come out of America in years. 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This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a new introduction by Robert Bray. Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura's romantic illusions are crushed. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), The Night of the Iguana (1961), and Small Craft Warnings (1972). If you enjoyed The Glass Menagerie, you might like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 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This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Arthur Miller. 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers' Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley Kowalski. Eventually their violent collision course causes Blanche's fragile sense of identity to crumble, threatening to destroy her sanity and her one chance of happiness. Tennessee Williams's steamy and shocking landmark drama, recreated as the immortal film starring Marlon Brando, is one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), The Night of the Iguana (1961), and Small Craft Warnings (1972). If you enjoyed A Streetcar Named Desire, you might like The Glass Menagerie, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 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Clear yet steamy, cosmic yet private, both playful and profound. . . as soulful a credo as he has ever put on paper' New York Times 'Playful, colourful, erotic. . . brilliant and sharp as flint' Big Issue 'Dazzling' Sunday Herald 'The best bring an ironic, world-weary sensibility to bear on themes of ageing, sex, sensuality and spirituality' Financial Times 'A fine book of poems' Time Out 'Cohen maps this wasteland of the heart with humour, and sometimes anger' Independent Cohen's career began in 1956 with the publication of Let Us Compare Mythologies, and he has since published nine books of poems, and has made numerous internationally successful recordings. 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Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, 'a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood', a harrowing attempt to understand himself and his family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Eugene+O'Neill\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eEugene O'Neill\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Eugene O'Neill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378194268323,"sku":"9780224610735","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780224610735_b84570de-56b8-4deb-b403-dba2d078d43f.jpg?v=1776459553"},{"product_id":"9781846149542","title":"The Poetry Pharmacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eTruly a marvellous collection ... There is balm for the soul, fire for the belly, a cooling compress for the fevered brow, solace for the wounded, an arm around the lonely shoulder - the whole collection is a matchless compound of hug, tonic and kiss' Stephen FrySometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice offer comfort, delight and inspiration for all; a space for reflection, and that precious realization - I'm not the only one who feels like this.In the years since he first had the idea of prescribing short, powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments, William Sieghart has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain, into the pages of the Guardian, onto BBC Radio 4 and onto the television, honing his prescriptions all the time. This pocket-sized book presents the most essential poems in his dispensary: those which, again and again, have really shown themselves to work. Whether you are suffering from loneliness, lack of courage, heartbreak, hopelessness, or even from an excess of ego, there is something here to ease your pain.'The book is delightful; it rightly resituates poetry in relation to its biggest and most serious task: helping us to live and die well' Alain de Botton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+William+Sieghart\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eWilliam Sieghart\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"William Sieghart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378259738787,"sku":"9781846149542","price":420.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781846149542_290751b5-507b-4618-8a7f-599e1f894531.jpg?v=1776601891"},{"product_id":"9781471196720","title":"Home Body","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of Milk And Honey and The Sun And Her Flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of poetry.\u003cbr\u003eRupi Kaur constantly embraces growth, and in Home Body she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present and the potential of the self. Home Body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself - reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Rupi+Kaur\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eRupi Kaur\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rupi Kaur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378325897379,"sku":"9781471196720","price":400.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781471196720_0ab7bcab-b4b5-49da-842e-d32ea54d12ac.jpg?v=1776542767"},{"product_id":"9781874915157","title":"The unknown child","description":"\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Patricia+Schonstein+Pinnock\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003ePatricia Schonstein Pinnock\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Patricia Schonstein Pinnock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378329108643,"sku":"9781874915157","price":259.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781874915157_434b891f-4e9b-45a0-a00d-287c09367165.jpg?v=1776608682"},{"product_id":"9781874915331","title":"Naturally Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this, the fifth of the Africa! anthologies, Dan Wylie and I collaborated to bring together a selection of poems to reveal the beauty, grandeur and exploitation of wild and urban landscapes. Poems are 'touched' by Africa, in the broadest sense. They focus on the environment while still engaging with emotions of love, loss and longing. These poems will make your heart both sing and sigh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Dan+Wylie\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eDan Wylie\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dan Wylie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378354929827,"sku":"9781874915331","price":395.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781874915331_1406b0b8-ef65-4247-bf4d-e08cebf58de8.jpg?v=1776608706"},{"product_id":"9780620735377","title":"Absolute Africa!","description":"\u003cp\u003eEloquent and elegant voices come together in the many dialects of the human heart. They succinctly describe, sculpt and expose the layers of everyday existence. We find love, beauty, reverie and simplicity running alongside pathos and sorrow, expressed on rural, urban, domestic and wild settings. Seen as a whole, the anthology exposes the amazing life-scaffolding that poetry offers us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Patricia+Schonstein\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003ePatricia Schonstein\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Patricia Schonstein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378354995363,"sku":"9780620735377","price":385.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"9781874915201","title":"Africa! My Africa!","description":"\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Patricia+Schonstein\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003ePatricia Schonstein\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Patricia Schonstein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378355126435,"sku":"9781874915201","price":350.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781874915201_cd0a4216-d2e6-4c35-a1c1-ad57cb19cdc4.jpg?v=1776608694"},{"product_id":"9781509830022","title":"Running Upon The Wires","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Whether on stage or on the page, her language hits like lightning. It illuminates and it burns.' Guardian\u003cbr\u003eRunning Upon The Wires is Kate Tempest's first book of free-standing poetry since the acclaimed Hold Your Own. In a beautifully varied series of formal poems, spoken songs, fragments, vignettes and ballads, Tempest charts the heartbreak at the end of one relationship and the joy at the beginning of a new love; but also tells us what happens in between, when the heart is pulled both ways at once.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRunning Upon The Wires is, in a sense, a departure from her previous work, and unashamedly personal and intimate in its address - but will also confirm Tempest's role as one of our most important poetic truth-tellers: it will be no surprise to readers to discover that she's no less a direct and unflinching observer of matters of the heart than she is of social and political change. Running Upon The Wires is a heartbreaking, moving and joyous book about love, in its endings and in its beginnings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Kae+Tempest\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eKae Tempest\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kae Tempest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378437111971,"sku":"9781509830022","price":285.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781509830022_a4a22522-f183-4fde-8446-50dda4b97301.jpg?v=1776556127"},{"product_id":"9780399563263","title":"Devotions","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's 'Books That Help Me Through' for Oprah's Book Club 'No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive, and Dream Work, one of her exceptional collections. Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment, poem by poem.' -The Washington Post 'It's as if the poet herself has sidled beside the reader and pointed us to the poems she considers most worthy of deep consideration.' -Chicago Tribune Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as 'far and away, this country's best selling poet' by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years. Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Mary+Oliver\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eMary Oliver\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mary Oliver","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378500944035,"sku":"9780399563263","price":455.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780399563263_978ddd1d-f2b2-410f-8b40-989bd23cb044.jpg?v=1776472687"},{"product_id":"9780241460399","title":"Mercies - Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974, she left behind a body of work which had already, in less than two decades of writing, won her the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, established her as one of the foremost voices of her generation, and shocked America by breaking multiple taboos of subject matter, from insanity, depression and addiction to menstruation, adultery and the figure of the witch. Sexton's name is legendary. Her poetry is read around the world, translated into over thirty languages, and in her own country remains a touchstone for poets and readers looking for rawness of perception, vitality of expression, confessional frankness and fiery passion. Yet, incredibly, there has been no new UK edition of her work for decades. In Mercies, readers are provided with a resonant new selection from the writings of this natural phenomenon of a poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Anne+Sexton\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAnne Sexton\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Anne Sexton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378532303011,"sku":"9780241460399","price":345.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780241460399_b58fc6ab-507b-4e0b-a522-48c01f2432b6.jpg?v=1776465091"},{"product_id":"9781474948128","title":"Macbeth Graphic Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eShakespeare's plays are part of our cultural heritage - every child is sure to come across at least one during their school life, and it's quite likely to be Macbeth. This accessible version of the story is told in picture strip to help both children and adults unravel the complexities of Shakespeare's language and plot. A well-crafted book which will provide a solid base for watching or studying the play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Russell+Punter\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eRussell Punter\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eIllustrator\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Illustrator+Valentino+Forlini\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eValentino Forlini\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eIllustrator\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Illustrator+Massimiliano+Longo\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eMassimiliano Longo\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Russell Punter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378541674659,"sku":"9781474948128","price":330.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781474948128_e9ec1db0-f8d8-4ba4-adbb-8d77be5d1dcf.jpg?v=1776546860"},{"product_id":"9780141190280","title":"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is published in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentility gradually slips away as unpleasant truths emerge and greed, lies, jealousy and suppressed sexuality threaten to reach boiling point. Made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a masterly portrayal of family tensions and individuals trapped in prisons of their own making. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), The Night of the Iguana (1961), and Small Craft Warnings (1972). If you enjoyed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, you might like Williams's The Glass Menagerie, also published in Penguin Modern Classics. \u003cbr\u003e'Tennessee Williams will live as long as drama itself ... he is, quite simply, indispensable' Peter Shaffer, author of Equus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Tennessee+Williams\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eTennessee Williams\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Tennessee Williams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378609766563,"sku":"9780141190280","price":275.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780141190280_03eeddb4-e1c4-4777-b55d-1c4bda09572b.jpg?v=1776453757"},{"product_id":"9780553212891","title":"Antony And Cleopatra","description":"\u003cp\u003eA magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters - the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra.  The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is a man torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty . . . between an empire and love.  Bold, rich, and splendid in its setting and emotions, Antony And Cleopatra ranks among Shakespeare's supreme achievements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+William+Shakespeare\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eWilliam Shakespeare\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"William Shakespeare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378611306659,"sku":"9780553212891","price":160.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780553212891_609eb299-79fe-4aa5-bbb2-1bc150464b8e.jpg?v=1776474584"},{"product_id":"9780349013572","title":"And Still I Rise","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beautiful and inspiring collection of poetry by Maya Angelou, author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS and 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA).\u003cbr\u003e'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, stand up again' Maya Angelou\u003cbr\u003eMaya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love, longing, partings; of Saturday night partying, and the smells and sounds of Southern cities; of freedom and shattered dreams.\u003cbr\u003e'Her poetry is just as much a part of her autobiography as I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and the volumes that follow.' Kirkus\u003cbr\u003e'It is true poetry she is writing . . . it has an innate purity about it, unquenchable dignity' M. F. K. Fisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Dr+Maya+Angelou\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eDr Maya Angelou\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dr Maya Angelou","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378779078819,"sku":"9780349013572","price":360.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780349013572_2d98fea8-e204-472e-ab63-7422fff3eb56.jpg?v=1776471197"},{"product_id":"9781776191321","title":"Kunene and the King","description":"\u003cp\u003eSouth Africa, 2019. Twenty-five years since the first post-apartheid democratic elections, two men from contrasting walks of life are thrust together to reflect on a quarter-century of change. Jack Morris is a celebrated classical actor who has just been given both a career-defining role and a life-changing diagnosis. Besides his age, Jack has seemingly little in common with his at-home nurse Lunga Kunene, but the two men soon discover their shared passion for Shakespeare, which ignites this ‘rich, raw and shattering head-to-head’ (The Times).\n\nWritten by South African actor, activist and playwright John Kani, this refreshingly funny and vital new play premiered in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon in 2019, before transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre in London. A co-production with the Fugard Theatre, it was directed by Janice Honeyman with moving performances from Antony Sher and John Kani.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+John+Kani\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJohn Kani\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"John Kani","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378843173027,"sku":"9781776191321","price":160.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781776191321_4b47c6cf-4818-43bf-93c3-f958f1fbe78d.jpg?v=1776580931"},{"product_id":"9780198120827","title":"Drummer Hodge: The poetry of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902, fought between the pride of the British Empire at the height of its world-wide power and two small rural republics at the tip of Africa, provoked remarkably vehement reactions not only in Britain, but all round the world. Much of this reaction was expressed in verse, most of it subliterary, but some of it such as Hardy's 'Drummer Hodge', putting forward a view of war more akin to Owen's 'Futility' than Tennyson's 'The Change of the Light Brigade'. The first chapter of Drummer Hodge traces the growth of pacifist attitudes to war and the compassionate treatment of soldiering in the course of the nineteenth century. Subsequent chapters deal with the imperial theme (much questioned at this time) in Boer War verse; the contributions of writers such as Newbolt, Hardy, Kipling, and AE Housman, as well as that of numerous soldier poets; the effect of the war on the literature of the Boers; Boer war poetry from the United States and the rest of the English-speaking world; and the literary results of the enormous pro-Boer movement in France, Germany and Holland: countries in which the Boer republics were seen as images of a rural simplicity and patriarchal integrity lost in Europe. The work is based on research completed over many years in libraries in South Africa, Britain, France, Germany and Holland, and constitutes an exercise in the comparative history of nineteenth-century English and European war poetry on a scale probably not attempted before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Malvern+van+Wyk+Smith\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eMalvern van Wyk Smith\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Malvern van Wyk Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47524225515683,"sku":"9780198120827","price":80.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780198120827_043e3576-e2bb-46d8-a367-d7452fe2f571.jpg?v=1776457733"},{"product_id":"9781919825588","title":"Mandela Dead and Alive 1976 - 2001","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese poems trace Nelson Mandela’s journey to freedom. The original French and Norman Strike’s sensitive English translations are printed on opposite pages, interspersed with ink drawings by Nja Madhaoui.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Edouard+J.+Maunick\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eEdouard J. Maunick\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eIllustrator\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Illustrator+Nja+Madhaoui\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eNja Madhaoui\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Edouard J. 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Each poem resonates with a distinct voice commenting on the poet's educational development and political awareness from the 1970s to present-day democratic South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Lebogang+Lance+Nawa\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eLebogang Lance Nawa\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+(Foreword+by+Es'kia+Mphahlele)\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003e(Foreword by Es'kia Mphahlele)\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lebogang Lance Nawa,(Foreword by Es'kia Mphahlele)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47524188225699,"sku":"9781869190927","price":20.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781869190927_b22685e2-543c-4b88-a3c5-fe5010e90c7c.jpg?v=1776605795"},{"product_id":"9781869191320","title":"Gone to the edges","description":"\u003cp\u003eA distinctive volume of poetry by a talented poet and highly acclaimed translator. Although the themes and ideas explored are mostly\u003cbr\u003epersonal, De Kock’s voice ensures a universal resonance in his poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Leon+De+Kock\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eLeon De Kock\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Leon De Kock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47524190388387,"sku":"9781869191320","price":30.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781869191320_fce73a25-92a0-465b-852e-716e819e287c.jpg?v=1776605983"},{"product_id":"9781869190958","title":"Shelley Cinema … and other poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of poems that showcases Stephen Gray’s output between 1999 and 2006. The lengthy title poem first appeared in the UK\u003cbr\u003ein Moving Worlds, and others have been gathered from avant-garde journals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Stephen+Gray\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eStephen Gray\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Stephen Gray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47524192747683,"sku":"9781869190958","price":20.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781869190958_df84a49f-13fc-4f56-a461-bcc065bdff79.jpg?v=1776605811"},{"product_id":"9781869192051","title":"Lush","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this unique collection of poems, Kruger uses four female voices to express highly emotive concepts such as change, growth, rejection,\u003cbr\u003eacceptance and love. The effect is a staccato syncopation of glimpses into a life that is simul taneously broken and healed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Haidee+Kruger\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eHaidee Kruger\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haidee Kruger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47524195139747,"sku":"9781869192051","price":30.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781869192051_3bd6c092-36fb-4f92-bf57-19dfb238da9d.jpg?v=1776606285"},{"product_id":"9781485904076","title":"Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eWho are the Women of Xolobeni?\u003cbr\u003eWho was Dulcie September?\u003cbr\u003eWhat are dirty\/pretty things?\u003cbr\u003eOr vulva volcanoes?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhatever its theme, each poem in this collection featuring the work of 40 black women poets from Africa and its diaspora reflects the lives of most, if not all women, womyn and womxn – particularly those born Black and poor by design in a post-slavery, post-colonial world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWild Imperfections opens with poems honouring different generations of ancestor women, like Sarah Baartman and Rosa Parks – born at different times yet all of them cultural and political mirrors to Black girls and women.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eQuestioning and disrupting patriarchy, these poems speak about birth and death, fertility and infertility, rape and genital mutilation, war, exile and forced migration, but also revel in joy, desire, and the expression of sexuality and the erotic.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBut what is a wild imperfection? And can the language of these poets recreate a space for the ‘wild’ and ‘unruly’, the ‘loose’ and ‘dirty’, the ‘witches’ and ‘bitches’ who are perfect in their brokenness and who are no longer seeking permission for their rage, their joy and their healing?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e‘Puts Black women where we know we belong, not at the margins of other people’s art … but at the helm of our own creative practice’ – Bernardine Evaristo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Natalia+Molebatsi\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eNatalia Molebatsi\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Natalia Molebatsi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379258933411,"sku":"9781485904076","price":260.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781485904076_96761737-2df8-497d-b800-338a7552541f.jpg?v=1776553068"},{"product_id":"9781784743703","title":"Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head","description":"\u003cp\u003e**Shortlisted for the 2022 Felix Dennis Prize**\u003cbr\u003ePoems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyonce's Lemonade and Black Is King. With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a girl who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way toward womanhood. Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women and teenage girls. These are noisy lives, full of music and weeping and surahs. These are fragrant lives, full of blood and perfume and jasmine. These are polychrome lives, full of moonlight and turmeric and kohl. The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets is a blessing, an incantatory celebration of survival. Each reader will come away changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Warsan+Shire\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eWarsan Shire\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Warsan Shire","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379267485859,"sku":"9781784743703","price":380.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781784743703_13e8d1a4-3ed9-4c2f-8fb8-cfc78fee8cb4.jpg?v=1776588913"},{"product_id":"9781405944557","title":"Dancing by the Light of the Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003eA poem can . . .\u003cbr\u003eComfort · Challenge · Be a friend \u003cbr\u003eStretch your vocabulary\u003cbr\u003eHelp you sleep · Break the ice\u003cbr\u003eFind you a lover · Be utter nonsense\u003cbr\u003eConsole · Make you laugh - or cry\u003cbr\u003eFor every moment in your life there is a poem.\u003cbr\u003eIn Dancing by the Light of the Moon we have a remarkable collection of over 250 best-loved poems in the English-speaking world.\u003cbr\u003eAllow Gyles Brandreth to be your guide to not only the wonders of poetry - and there are many - but also its practical uses in everyday life.\u003cbr\u003eWhether seeking some words to reflect your mood, wanting to celebrate or mark an occasion or simply looking for lines of comfort and joy in difficult times, this collection has everything for readers of poetry both young and old, novices and old hands alike, will love and return to again and again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Gyles+Brandreth\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eGyles Brandreth\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gyles Brandreth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379301695651,"sku":"9781405944557","price":345.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781405944557_8005d7c3-adef-4e8c-8816-ad9852c6cb7a.jpg?v=1776525699"}],"url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/collections\/poetry-drama-plays.oembed?page=3","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}