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Our bookstore is located at 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg. Our own titles as well as books from other South African and international publishers are available in the store and on this site. We are the sole distributors in southern Africa of books from Tate Publishing (UK), Assouline (USA), Nazraeli (USA). We specialise in books on contemporary art, architecture, graphic design and monographs.
Botsotso: An Anthology of Contemporary South African Poetry
Botsotso was founded in South Africa in 1994, following the end of Apartheid, by the Botsotso Jesters, a poetry performance group. Its first printed manifestation was as an insert in the New Nation a now defunct weekly newspaper’s demise, Botsotso became a magazine in its own right and a publishing house. This anthology of 12 [...]
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Stilllewe
This book is about a collection of Afrikaans poetry translated into songs.For the fans is a limited number of Zuid-Afrikaans versions of Still Life book has Previously Registered Overseas. From NOW AVAILABLE on the website, as long the stock. Publishing in these ARE the Flemish / Dutch ‘ongezongen WORDS’ in Afrikaans .
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Wordsetc. Sixth Edition, 2009
Imraan Coovadia: Sixth edition of Wordsetc hits bookshelves “Coovadia’s work hardly shies away from including troubling contemporary issues, including the inevitable twinning of race and political life in South Africa (and the myriad hues in which this link appears); the ambiguous position of Indians living outside of the Subcontinent – their ability to fit between [...] |
Pablo Picasso: The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & other Poems
Pablo Picasso may be the most famous and influential artist of the twentieth century. What few know is that in 1935, at age 54, Picasso stopped painting, and for a time devoted himself entirely to poetry. Even after eventually resuming his visual work, Picasso continued to write, in a characteristic torrent, until 1959 – leaving [...]
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The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published, that took place between 2002 and 2004. Beginning with the garden, that “work of the imagination,” the explorations journey through personal recollections, the creative process, and the harmony of the life cycle. A bouquet [...] |
Love Child
AOM Love Child is a collection for the new millennium generation. It is valuable not just for the deeply-felt personal and political insights it has to offer, but for the accessible ease with which it manages to capture the seminal moments of black South African history in the preserving amber of the author’s personal recollection. [...]
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Book of Songs
Written over a month of fasting and inspired by the poetry of Rumi, these poems are all, ultimately, songs of love. When John Cleare generously agreed to contribute his photographs, these songs met their matching images of light and the Book of Songs finally became complete.
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The Drum Decade: Stories from the 1950s
AOM Drum was launched as a popular magazine in the 1950s and quickly came to reflect the image and interests of the urban African. Its reports of the Defiance Campaign, the Congress of the People and the Treason Trial shared column-space with stories of soccer, sex and sin. This combination of yellow-press sensation and [...]
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Soweto Poetry: Literary Perspective
AOM Just as Soweto poetry in the voices of Mbuyiseni Mtshali, Mongane Serote, Sipho Sepamla, Mafika Gwala and others has superseded its immediate political context to enter into any valid consideration of South African literature, so the contributions – republished here 25 years later – gain resonance in retrospect.The contributions draw on the insights of [...]
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The Rand at War 1899-1902: The Witwatersrand and the Anglo-Boer War
AOM The wealth and power of Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand were a focal point of the tension which led to the Anglo-Boer war. This is a social history of the community; here are the ‘randlords’, the British rulers and the Boer generals, but equally Diana Cammack brings back to life the working people – Uitlander, [...]
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