Ek’t Act

TO ACT I S TO DO. TO ACT I S TO ADOPT A ROLE.

This slippage between agency and being, on the one hand, and performance, on the other, is amplified in Ek’t Act’s homophonic play across languages. Expanding on Klara du Plessis’s earlier translingual poetry, critically acclaimed in Canada, this collection flows seamlessly between English and Afrikaans.

In dié bundel verskyn ’n spreker en ’n kind. Hulle is verweef in taal, landskap, liggaam en digkuns. Ek’t Act se reeks lang gedigte wil voorgedra word, om in ritme en klank, ‘van liggaam tot lig,’ te resoneer.

Author Klara du Plessis