Lady Anne : a chronicle in verse / by Antjie Krog ; translated from the Afrikaans and with a preface by the poet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krog, Antjie, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barnard, Anne Lindsay, Lady, 1750-1825--Poetry.

Barnard, Anne Lindsay.

Barnard, Anne Lindsay, Lady, 1750-1825.

Genre:

Poetry.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]

Summary:

Lady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse by Antjie Krog is the first English translation of an award winning book published in Afrikaans in 1989. It engages critically and creatively with a key moment of colonial history--the time Lady Anne Barnard spent at the Cape of Good Hope, from 1797 to 1802. Usually mentioned merely as a witty hostess of fabulous parties, Anne Lindsay Barnard, the daughter of a Scottish Earl and the wife of a colonial administrator, was an independent thinker and a painter and writer of genius. She left diaries, correspondence and watercolors documenting her experiences in this exotic land, the contact zone of colonizers and indigenous peoples. Antjie Krog acts as bard and chronicles an epic about this remarkable heroine's life in South Africa, and intertwines it with life two hundred years later in the same country but now in the throes of anti-apartheid anger and vicious states of emergency. Krog's powerful and eloquent bringing together of the past and the present, and the historical and the poetic embodies an experience that is as pertinent and compelling today in a democratic but still turbulent South Africa, as it is in the USA and other places where the intersections of race, identity, power, and language lie at the center of civic life.

Contents:

Part I 1

On board Sir Edward Hughes 23rd Feb. - 1797

2.30 South latitude / 17 West longitude / 9th Mar. - 1797

The Country of the Lindsays of the Byres (a letter from Fife, 1300, writer unknown)

Song written before the birth of Lady Anne Lindsay (1750)

"two years next month / since my last poetry volume"

"once more / before an empty page"

Kroonstad March '86

Hail Lady Anne Barnard!

Cape of Good Hope 4th May - 1797

Part II 13

Cape of Good Hope 10th July - 1797

Castle October 1797

Castle 12th Oct. - 1797

Castle 1798

Auld Robin Gray written by Lady Anne Barnard

Gossip from diaries and letters

Old Lady Lindsay from Scotland

To Windham 1st Nov. - 1793

St Wolstans near Dublin 10th Dec. - 1793

Dublin 12th July - 1794

Kroonstad first state of emergency July 1985

First Christmas weekend under the second state of emergency 1988

"Because among mine I feel more and more ill at ease"

To have or to be

Gnome

Parole

Cape of good hope

Lady Anne as guide because a hero needs a bard

"I think I am the first" - Lady Anne on Table Mountain

Part III (V) 37

The Drup Kelder Tuesday 8th May - 1798

Farm of Jakob van Reenen Sunday 13th May - 1798

Monday 14th May-1798

Tuesday 15th May - 1798

Tuesday 22nd May - 1798

St Andrew's Fife Scotland 25th Aug - 1987

Visit to Balcarres the ballad of Andries Dundas-Dekker

Genadendal 10th May - 1798

Thursday 31st May - 1798

Part IV 55

20th Nov - 1798

Paradise November 1798

1789

1793

"given line: macho men give me the creeps"

Plea to be liberated

"one day my husband feels I do indeed deserve"

Slaughtering cattle for the Dutch Reformed Church fête

Lady Anne at the microwave oven

"I smell him young behind the breadcutting machine"

Ma will be late

I will always remember

"strategically I do my best"

Ballad of the power game

Illness

Castle of Good Hope 14th Dec. - 1799

Vineyard 14th May - 1800

Journal ("This sets loose so many images.")

Journal ("empty lies the interior of the land")

Vineyard 16th Feb - 1801

Part III (end) 83

January 1802

New alphabet

Transparency of the sole

The heart is the toughest part of the body

Lady Anne Barnard: remembered for her parties in my history book

A poem about guilt

Gothic House Wimbledon 1806

Wimbledon May 1807

Cape of Good Hope June 1807

Cape of Good Hope August 1807

Wimbledon November 1807

Wimbledon 1808

Neither family nor friends

Epitaph

End

End.

ISBN:

161148815X

9781611488159

OCLC:

967193367