The Reactive
The Reactive

Author: Masande Ntshanga

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2014-10-03

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1415206120

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In a city that has lost its shimmer, Lindanathi and his two friends Ruan and Cecelia sell illegal pharmaceuticals while chasing their next high. Lindanathi, deeply troubled by his hand in his brother’s death, has turned his back on his family, until a message from home reminds him of a promise he made years before. When a puzzling masked man enters their lives, Lindanathi is faced with a decision: continue his life in Cape Town, or return to his family and to all he has left behind. Rendered in lyrical, bright prose and set in a not-so-new South Africa, The Reactive is a poignant, life-affirming story about secrets, memory, chemical abuse and family, and the redemption that comes from facing what haunts us most.

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Author: Ladonna Sanders Nkosi

Publisher: 978-1-7367371-0-1

Published: 2021-04-02

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781736737101

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The Poet RevL positions our gaze to look into the soul of a matter and challenges us to see ourselves and the world around us differently. Fearfully and Wonderfully Made weaves the message of healing racism from the inside out into each poem. This work is emotive, enlightening, and beautifully crafted, leaving you wanting more of this gifted Poet's words. Rev. LaDonna speaks to the core of the human soul releasing a healing balm of self-love and acceptance, leaving you enveloped in the love of your Creator. From the intensely self-aware and moving homage to South Africa in "Remembering South Africa" to the impassioned "The White Gaze". Each poem takes us on a self-reflective, introspective journey of connection, identity, godly value, and worth. Provoking the reader to perceive the simple truth. It is only in remembering who we are in God, will we see each other clearly without filters or skin-color-tinted glasses.

Writing South Africa
Writing South Africa

Author: Derek Attridge

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-01-22

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780521597685

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During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's relation to politics and ethics. Writing South Africa offers a window on the literary activity of this extraordinary period that conveys its range (going well beyond a handful of world-renowned names) and its significance for anyone interested in the impact of decolonisation and democratisation on the cultural sphere. It brings together for the first time discussions by some of the most distinguished South African novelists, poets, and dramatists, with those of leading commentators based in South Africa, Britain and North America.

I Am An African
I Am An African

Author: Wayne Visser

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 095708174X

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This creative collection brings together Africa poems by South African poet and writer, Wayne Visser, including the ever popular "I Am An African", as well as old favourites like "Women of Africa", "I Know A Place in Africa", "Prayer for Africa" and "African Dream". The anthology celebrates the luminous continent and its rainbow people. The updated 5th Edition includes new poems like "Africa Untamed" and "Land of the Sun".

Wishing Leaves
Wishing Leaves

Author: Wayne Visser

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 0957081758

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This unique collection brings together nature poems by poet and writer, Wayne Visser, celebrating the diversity, beauty and ever-changing moods of our planet. The anthology includes many old favourites like "I Think I Was a Tree Once" and "A Bug's Life", as well as brand new poems like "Monet's Dream" and "The Environmentalist". Then as we turned our faces to the moon Our hands entwined, our hearts in sync, in tune We felt the fingers of the silken breeze And made our wishes on the falling leaves

Poetry and the Aesthetics of Commitment in South African Literature
Poetry and the Aesthetics of Commitment in South African Literature

Author: David Olusegun Agbaje, Ph.D

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2024-03-01

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1398428728

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What is literature? What is poetry? How do poets committed to the idea of using poetry as a weapon of socio-cultural and political struggle manage to impress their works in the minds and memories of men long after the struggle has been fought and won or lost? What will a new generation of poets write about after the explosive social contradictions that inspired older poets have been resolved? Why do the themes and styles of poets in transitional societies change along with human fortunes and circumstances? This book provides answers to these questions and more... using the poetic heritage of South Africa. It is a compelling pedagogic work, a must-read for every student, researcher and teacher of African poetry, and a collector’s item for the general public.

Home is Where the Mic Is
Home is Where the Mic Is

Author: Poefficient Vundla

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2017-12-29

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1990922058

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This anthology presents the work of twenty-four young Spoken Word poets from South Africa, with a sprinkling of guests from the United States, Britain and Australia. The experience of black youth in societies polarized by racism, inequality and gender violence whilst, at the same time, struggling to come to terms with love, sex and all the other basic needs of young people makes for fascinating reading. The inventive graphic layout is a fine addition to a stand out volume. Home is Where the Mic Is was conceived as a collaboration with Word n Sound, a popular Johannesburg Spoken Word platform. The intention was to give hitherto only stage poets an opportunity to test their work on the page and confound the Eurocentric critics of the new wave of performance poetry who decry its energy and breaking down of artificial definitions of poetry. This is South African poetry standing on it's own two feet!