These are the lies I told you [electronic resource] / Kerry Hammerton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammerton, Kerry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South African poetry (English).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (78 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cape Town, South Africa : Modajaji Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kerry Hammerton is a poet, writer and alternative health practitioner. She is a graduate of The University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) and The College of Integrated Chinese Medicine (Reading, UK). Her poetry has been published in South African literary journals such as Carapace, New Contrast and New Coin, online at Litnet and Incwadi. She has also been a contributor to The Empty Tin Readings (May 2010) and The Poetry Project. These are the lies I told you is her first poetry collection. Kerry has fewer wrinkles than she should have at her age ñ or so her friends tell her.

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; When all the mysteries are revealed; There is only this; Things I've left behind in hotel rooms; You left me a note once; The sickness of us; A modern love poem; Familiarity; Marriage bed; Why are you so irritable?; All the things I don't know how to do; You photograph me; I said something profound; Saying goodbye; Hangover Cure; Shoes; Suffused; Come visit, have coffee; Diary of a relationship; Wedding day blues; Survival; Long Street : Cape Town; Love; Song; Medical Emergency; One minute lover; Jellyfish lover; You taught me; Beach sex

From a different coast you came to me I'd take more care; Aubade; Luck; Undergarments; Once I knew; How Many Times Must I say Goodbye?; If; Lust; Sugar baby; Each time; My body; The sound of you; On realizing I'm in love with you; How are babies made?; Our first time; Identity; Halloween; Tattoo; Unlike you; Mending me; In about six months; On Losing You; These are the Lies I told you; On finally realizing he is an Arsehole; Winter; Planting olive trees; Acknowledgements; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-06354-9

9786613063540

1-920397-79-5

1-920397-71-X

1-920397-55-8

OCLC:

823850948