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Dark Horse / Michèle Betty.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Betty, Michèle, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South African poetry (English).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (43 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cape Town, South Africa : Dark Horse Dryad Press (Pty) Ltd, [2019]
- Summary:
- The poems in Dark Horse are disruptive, even disturbing.The collection engages with taboos and myths surrounding self-harm, consequent journeys to unfamiliar, sometimes foreign spaces, and aspects of spiritual awareness and loss.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Premonition
- I Verso
- L'Infra-Ordinaire
- Collecting Coals
- Habibe
- Talisman
- Stem Cell Sadness
- Fey
- Leaning Out to Touch Sky
- In the White of the Year
- A Sordid State
- Hexakósioi Hexēkonta Héx
- The Durban July, 2005
- If only you had said
- An Irreverent Calling
- Dialogue of a Man With His Soul
- Disturbia
- II Inversus
- This Picture Frame: Suburbia
- It's Not Like in the Movies
- Father at the House of the Dead
- My Uncle Buried Him
- The Ins and Outs of the Inquest Docket
- Stigmata
- Our Bodies, Our Selves
- I Turn a Great Hourglass
- All the psychologists say
- I Sleep and My Soul Awakens
- To Will an Apparition
- Forty Days
- Zoetrope
- III Verbatim
- Dream Sequence
- In the Misperception of My Life
- Ars Poetica in Décima
- Pantoum to the Elation of Making
- Snowfall
- Angelus
- Triptych I
- Allegory of the Cave
- Homesick for the Land of Pictures
- Insight into Exile
- Triptych II
- A Caged Bird in Spring
- An Artistic Addiction
- In a Mood of Too Much Calm
- Sparrowhawk
- Beneath the Albumen, Yolk
- Sending Rain
- Sixth Sense on the Linga Linga
- On the Road to Tartarus
- Butanding
- Prosõpon
- Threshold
- Reservoir
- God Presents Herself
- At the Nursery in Rain
- On Being Gifted a Life
- Do Not Stride Out to That Vast Lake
- Anoint the Body
- Recovery
- In My Mother's Heart
- Uncoding Landscape
- Acknowledgements and Permissions
- Notes on Epigraphs and Quotations.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781990983290
- 1990983294
- OCLC:
- 1379441393
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