The summer we didn't die / Christine Coates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coates, Christine M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South African poetry (English).

Physical Description:

88 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Cape Town, South Africa : Modjaji Books, 2020.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The summer of '69

Learning to drive

The summer of '69

Summer storms

Western Transvaal farm visit

Agricultural show

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Unsteady ground

Awakening

Mothering: a pantoum

My father the movie director

The sky above me

City swim

Skin

Fig tree with Ma

Ensure

Throwing bones

A moment at the bus stop

First weekend

Carpet

Salt

Excavate

Scars

2. The summer of fire

The garden

- a poem in five movements

1. In the beginning

2. Fires

3. Renewal

4. Drought

5. The mourning dove

Summer fire

Evidence

The thirst

The dry

Watering bees

Newlands Spring

3. Threnody for summer

Threnody for a queen in four parts

- an opera

1. Queen Lear

2. The girl

3. A game of chess

4. The collapsed mother

Why should I hesitate

Shoes in Sandton Square

4. To the islands

Tears for Medusa

Story stories

The Blue House

Molyvos

Journal in France

A visit to the paradise

Road back to Klerksdorp

Ikageng

Mapungubwe

The Marikana March

Being the Second Wife

5. Summers of life

Body map

Birds

Night walk

Surfing lessons

Self-portrait as a mermaid

Change of life

6. The summer we didn't die: Corona

Quinces in the time of corona (a cycle)

1. The week we picked quinces

2. Second picking

3. The butterfly effect

Lockdown diary

Baking bread

Bridge

Sixty-seven minutes

Fire pit project

Fire tales

Lockdown moons

1. Easter Moon

2. Grandfather's moon

3. Moon in June

4. July moon

5. August moon

Drinking in lockdown

The year the animals come closer.

Notes:

Includes a glossary.

ISBN:

9781928433026

1928433022

OCLC:

1242917268

Publisher Number:

99992179856