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 [...]

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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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Author: Pablo Picasso, English, Monograph, Softcover, 202x155mm, 316pp, ISBN: 9781878972361,
Price: (ZA)R 200.00

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 [...]

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Author: Stanley Kunitz, Genine Lentine, English, NonArt, Softcover, 144pp, 210x150.5mm, ISBN: 978-0-393-32997-1,
Price: (ZA)R 185.00

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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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Author: Gcina Mhlophe, English, NonArt, Softcover, 120pp, 220 x 136mm, ISBN: 978 1 86914 111 0,
Price: (ZA)R 100.00

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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Author: Shabbir Banoobhai, English, NonArt, Softcover, 144pp,, ISBN: 1868143988,
Price: (ZA)R 150.00

 
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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 social concern [...]

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Author: Michael Chapman, English, NonArt, Softcover, 260pp, 208 x 145mm, ISBN: 978 0 86980 985 3,
Price: (ZA)R 115.00

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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 many [...]

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Author: Michael Chapman, English, NonArt, Softcover, 240pp, 220 x 150mm, ISBN: 978 1 86914 127 1,
Price: (ZA)R 180.00

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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, Boer [...]

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Author: Diana Cammack, English, NonArt, Softcover, 240pp, 234 x 156mm, ISBN: 978 0 86980 729 3,
Price: (ZA)R 100.00

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This tribute collection binds together the manifold voices and visions of Sandile Dikeni – one of South Africa’s most gifted poets. Combining the best of his previous two collections with a dazzling display of original new work, it stands as a testament to the breathtaking talent of a poet who writes always from the heart.

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Author: Sandile Dikeni, English, NonArt, Softcover, 80pp, 220 x 145mm, ISBN: 978 1 86914 122 6,
Price: (ZA)R 105.00

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The publication of inward moon outward sun signals a welcome end to Shabbir Banoobhai’s self-imposed silence that lasted well over a decade. Douglas Livingstone said of his poetry: ‘I first came to know Shabbir through his poems when I was struck by the clean, simplistic line he generally favoured. But the simplicity was deceptive: he [...]

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Author: Shabbir Banoobhai, English, NonArt, Softcover, 64pp, 220 x 148mm, ISBN: 978 1 86914 004 5,
Price: (ZA)R 85.00