The Sol Plaatje European Union poetry anthology 2011 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1431402753 ISBN 13: 9781431402755

Publisher: Jacana Media, 2011

Synopsis

The inaugural European Union Sol Plaatje Poetry Competition Anthology honours the spirit of the legendary intellectual giant, Sol Plaatje, the activist, linguist and translator, novelist, journalist and leader. This sparkling array of contributions from poets around the country will resonate with those who live in this country and those who love it from afar. Wicked and beautiful as ever it was while Plaatje observed the Boer War, translated Shakespeare, reflected on "Native Life" and played with proverbs, so the poems in this anthology bring the depth and breadth of life in South Africa to a wider audience. Personal themes of identity, isolation and and intimacy are pitted against the politics property and personhood, loss and love. Family and music, traffic and weather, bodies and buildings form the backdrop for the particular and familiar of South African life. Individual voices in a range of languages bear witness to all that is gruesome, glorious and gleeful. There is hope for a country when its poets pay attention.

About this title

About the Author:

Liesl Jobson is the poetry editor at the online magazine Mad Hatters' Review, the recipient of the Ernst van Heerden Creative Writing Award, and the winner of both the Inglis House Poetry Contest and the People Opposing Women Abuse Poetry Competition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jacana Media
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1431402753
• ISBN 13: 9781431402755
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Jobson Liesl