Fourth child : poems / by Megan Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Megan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South African poetry--21st century.

South African poetry.

Hall, Megan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (58 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athlone [South Africa] : Modjaji Books, 2007.

Language Note:

English

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-06343-3

9786613063434

1-920397-82-5

1-920397-58-2

1-920397-12-4

OCLC:

830165945