| Description |
1 online resource (58 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Darning; Gunshot; Suicide notes; Real; What love is; Anniversary; To a friend, on getting older; 14; Wolwekloof; The dead man and his lover; Fourth child; Seed; Blame the ocean; Leaving you; You move fast; The disappearance of the dead; Love is a habit; Who gave us this gift?; Seams; Star walk; Ticking; Dancing on Robben Island; Cesaria live; Dance hall; Kiss; Your red and secret lips; Wantin; Notes to the poems; Notes on the author; Back Cover |
| Summary |
Megan Hall's first collection of poems, Fourth Child, has the texture of a carefully wrought, hand-stitched garment. It is something you want to bury your face in, like the familiar scented fabric of an item of clothing that belonged to a beloved who is gone. The Poems combine a dark humour and terrible grief with a lightness and restrained sensuality. Her language has the qualities of dance: uninhibited and polished, accomplished and vivid. Fourth Child shows a poet courageously facing deep feelings while being committed to accurate writing, making beautiful and living things out of the fabri |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hall, Megan
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South African poetry -- 21st century
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POETRY -- African.
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South African poetry
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781920397821 |
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1920397825 |
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