{"product_id":"9780620839679","title":"The shores of years","description":"\u003cp\u003eSwanson's poetry inhabits numerous spaces at once: unmistakably South African, historical, humane, and often strikingly original. His poems are very like the photos that accompany them, high definition observations. Lex Loizides - Crafter of wonderful poems. Leader of Jubilee Community Church in Cape Town. Author of books and songs of faith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe shores of years brings to the fore the storyteller in Swanson's poetic repertoire as he lights on several shores through life to life beyond life, he takes the reader to the window and leaves, allowing the reader the right to open the curtain to see what's outside the window. This is a must-read book! Tendai R. Mwanaka - author, visual and musical artist, editor and publisher at Mwanaka Media and Publishing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a poem like bistro benito makes clear, Swanson excels in the role of the quintessential lone observer at a café or bar. His second collection contains poems on a wide variety of subjects, however, and also includes poems which are personal and reflective in nature. Interestingly, a few of the poems in the collection were written by the poet in his teenage years. The consistency between the voice of the younger poet and the older poet is remarkable. Swanson's portraits of people are vivid and precisely rendered; his portraits of places, no less precise in their rendering, are often deeply infused with a sense of history and its legacies. Equally fine are his humorous, playful poems, which gain a momentum of their own. Eduard Burle - ECCA poet and regular reader at Off The Wall Poetry Performing, with poems published in New Coin, New Contrast, Stanzas and Patricia Schonstein's “Africa!” anthologies.\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+Archie+Swanson\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eArchie Swanson\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Archie Swanson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378356437155,"sku":"9780620839679","price":170.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780620839679_d6f95844-dac8-457f-b90a-8761650a5296.jpg?v=1776477239","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9780620839679","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}