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Title The only magic we know : selected Modjaji poems, 2004 to 2020 / edited by Marike Beyers
Published [South Africa] : Modjaji Books, [2020]
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Contents ... When I Set Off In My Best Body -- The White Room / Phillippa Yaa de Vdliers -- 7 Dinge Wat Djy Nie Van My Sal Wiet'Ie / Shirmoney Rhode -- Child In A Photograph / Arja Salafranca -- Walking The Lioness / Robin Winckel-Mellisb -- Strange Fruit / Helen Moffett -- Falling / Crystal Warren -- All The Things I Don't Know How To Do / Kerry Hammerton -- Flying Off The Handle / Colleen Higgs -- For A Change / Annette Snyckers -- Skin Matters / Khadija Tracey Heeger -- The Dance Of The Mustang / Tariro Ndoro -- Polite Conversations Phillippa Yaa de Villiers Mermaid song / Haidee Kotze -- Wanting / Megan Hall -- Seahorse / Sarah Frost -- Myth Of Myself / Christine Coates -- "Flexi Non Frangi" / Joan Metelerkamp -- A Series Of Seven Poems / Kerry Hammerton -- My eyes die of hunger / as I make up my life -- Love Poem To Papa I & II; Daughter Notes / Katlebo Kano Shoro -- Home Times / Christine Coates -- A Memory Of My Parents, Circa 1977 / Colleen Higgs -- The Great Learning Sindiwe Magona Clipped/Geknip / Annette Snyckers --
Sticks And Stones / Beverly Rycroft -- Caliban / Colleen Crawford Cousins -- Intentions / Colleen Higgs -- Unfolding / Jenna Mervis -- Ceremonial / Joan Metelerkamp -- Ceremony / Robin Winckel-Mellisb -- Marriage / Colleen Higgs -- Four Voices Of Marriage / Christine Coates -- In The Beginning / Azila Talit Reisenbetger -- The Work Of Pregnancy / Colleen Crawford Cousins -- 17Th April, 10H03 / Sarah Frost -- Living In A Shoe / Beverly Rycroft -- Every Man / Dawn Garisch -- Earth Shades In Morning / Robin Winckel-Mellisb -- A Question Of Rime / Jenna Mervis -- Morning Work / Karin Schimke -- Day / Sarah Frost -- Worm Music / Makhosazana Xaba -- Transformed / Jeannie Wallace McKeown -- Anniversary / Megan Hall -- Nameless Places / Karin Schimke -- Intimate / Robin Winckel-Mellisb -- Beyond Touch / Arja Salafranca -- Intact / Foan Metelerkamp --
To The Sisters / Dawn Garisch -- To A Friend, On Getting Older / Megan Hall -- Foundation / Phillippa Yaa de Villiers -- Seven Year Itch / Azila Talit Reisenberger -- Diary Of A Relationship / Karin Schimke -- Another North / Dawn Garisch -- How Healed / Karin Schimke -- Letting Go / Colleen Higgs -- Night Birds / Arja Salafranca -- Paper Boat / Robin Winckel-Mellisb -- Folding / Joan Metelerkamp -- Fragments: Weekend Mythos / Tariro Ndoro -- Bequest / Beverly Rycroft -- Waning / Ingrid Andersen -- Within Reach / Margtret Clough -- Passer-By / Marike Beyers -- Heritage / Azila Talit Reisenberger -- Funeral Sounds / Kadebo Kano Shoro -- The Disappearance Of The Dead / Megtn Hall -- Elegy For Paul / Jenna Mervis -- The Home Bringing / Robin Winckel-Mellisb -- 12Th March, 09H35; 28Th April, 22H45 / Malika Ndlovu -- Another Country / Colleen Higgs -- Ou Werf / Thandi Sliepen -- In Memoriam / Elisa Galgut -- Wearing Silence / Michelle McGrane -- Penelope / Joan Metelerkamp -- We have lived from birth in this fist of rock / And ocean -- Across The River Kei / Sindiwe Magona -- The Girl From Qumbu / Christine Coates --
Kalahari Blue / Robin Winckel-Mellish -- School Mornings Before A Test / Christine Coates -- My Yeovtlle / Colleen Higgs -- Steak / Arja Salafranca -- Dancing On Robben Island / Megan Hall -- Now Me Heads / Thandi Sliepen -- The Way Light Falls / Haidee Kotze -- Sign Poem 34 / Eliza Kentridge -- A Person / Ingrid Andersen -- Retired / Arja Salafranca -- 4.00 Am / Michelle McGrane -- Gangster's Paradise / Shirmoney Rhode -- Jozi Parks / Philippa Yaa de Villiers -- History / Dawn Garisch -- A Young Debriefing For Sankara / Katleho Kano Shoro -- Trade Matters / Isobel Dixon -- South African War Horses / Wendy Woodward -- The Women With Steel Necks / Thandi Sliepen -- The Leader / Sindiwe Magona -- Spit Not Swallow / Kadeho Kano Shoro -- Unlikely / Colleen Crawford Cousins -- Rock Fig / Karin Schimke -- You Told Me / Makhosazana Xaba -- Sixty-Nine Bullets / Phillippa Yaa de Villiers -- Nouns / Isobel Dixon --
Remembering S-21, Cambodia / Fiona Zerbst -- Blood Delta / Dawn Garisch -- The Offending Document / Tariro Ndoro -- Land Reform / Colleen Crawford Cousins -- Truths & Reconciliations / Isobel Dixon -- Eurydice And The Trc / Elisa Galgut -- Why? / Isobel Dixon -- The Things They Do Not Tell You / Karin Schimke -- Don't Mention The War / Phillippa Yaa de Villiers -- Spade / Kadeho Kano Shoro -- Burials / Fiona Zerbst -- Finsong / Isobel Dixon -- The First Time / Colleen Crawford Cousins -- July / Fiona Zerbst -- Winter From A Balcony / Jenna Mervis -- Telltales / Margaret Clough -- Miskien/Maybe Annette Snyckers Saturday: Spreading the news / Beverly Rycroft -- Home / Khadija Tracey Heeger -- The Existence Of Home / Karin Schimke -- Tong / Tongue / Annette Snyckers -- In A Strange Land / Marike Beyers -- Sign Poem 18 / Eliza Kentridge -- Words To Take To A Desert Island / Colleen Crawford Cousins -- When I Finally Get To Bhutan / Karin Schimke -- Materiality / Isobel Dixon -- Sign Poem 7 / Eliza Kentridge -- The Reckless Sleeper / Haidee Kotze --
Relativity Helen Mojfett Repetition / Tariro Ndoro -- Recurral / Beverly Rycroft -- Beyond / Fiona Zerbst -- What Mountains Dream Of / Helen Moffett -- Tide / Joan Metelerkamp -- At The World's End / Elisa Galgut -- Littoral / Colleen Crawford Cousins -- Patterns / Fiona Zerbst -- Hadeda Geographies / Melissa Buder -- To open up words, / unfold them to paper -- What The Dead Say / Phillippa Yaa de Villiers -- Stories / Wendy Woodward -- Foolish Mermaid / Crystal Warren -- Bertha Mason Speaks / Michelle McGrane -- The Minotaur Comes To Our Picnic / Wendy Woodward -- Envy / Phillippa Yaa de Villiers -- Faith / Margaret Clough -- The End / Haidee Kotze -- How The Architect Lives / Karin Schimke -- Art / Thandi Sliepen -- Not Every Piece / Joan Metelerkamp -- To Christina Rossetti / Helen Moffett -- Waiting For Harry / Crystal Warren -- Imagination / Sindiwe Magona --
The Police Constable/Poet In Court / Margaret Clough -- The Small Rain / Wendy Woodward -- Lucky Bean Necklace / Sarah Frost -- Enough / Azila Talit Reisenberger -- Words / Makhosazana Xaba -- Rituals / Crystal Warren -- It Is A Risk / Ingrid Andersen -- Statement / Sindiwe Magona -- Stone Words / Khadija Tracey Heeger -- Cradle / Haidee Kotze -- Ek Kan Oek Mooi Woorde Skryf / Shirmoney Rhode -- The Accuracy Of Letters / Elisa Galgut -- Writer / Haidee Kotze -- The Recalcitrant Muse / Michelle McGrane -- Muse / Phillippa Yaa de Villiers -- Writer's Block / Jeannie Wallace McKeown -- Conduit / Sarah Frost -- Voice / Marike Beyers -- Taped Beak / Karin Schimke -- Points On Poems / Joan Metelerkamp
Summary "The Only Magic We Know is a celebration of all the poets Modjaji has published. This anthology offers a taste of the range and diversity of the poems that have appeared in the individual poets' collections."--Publisher
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed May 11, 2021)
Subject South African poetry (English)
"Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides."
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African.
South African poetry (English)
South Africa
Genre/Form poetry.
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.
Form Electronic book
Author Beyers, Marike, editor.
ISBN 9781928215899
1928215890