Short Review: Birds in Words
Today’s Sunday Times published a short review of mine (slightly edited) of Birds in Words, the quirky poetry compilation by Gus Ferguson and Tony Morphet. Here’s the link:
And here’s the review in full:
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Book Launched: Birds in Words
A pretty book, launched at a pretty venue. Birds Cafe on Bree St. is one of Cape Town’s most popular lunch spots, the apogee of rustic chic in the city. The usual milk crate seats and door-and-sawhorses tables were cleared away for poets on Saturday morning, but the birdsong - supplied by a turntable spinning behind a curtain - twittered right along throughout.
Tags: Annari van der Merwe, Birds, Birds Cafe, Birds in Words, Birdwatching, Brian Warner, Gus Ferguson, Helen Moffett, Henrietta Rose Innes, Ingrid de Kok, Mike Nicol, Peter E Clarke, Poetry, PR Anderson, South African Literature, The Margin, Tony Morphet, Twitchers, Umuzi, Willem Jordaan, William Dicey
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Birds in Words - at Birds
Delivered to the inbox a few days ago - should be great fun:
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Umuzi and Clarke’s Bookshop
invite you to celebrate the publication of
Birds in Words
The Twitchers’ Guide to South African Poetry
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Cape Town Book Fair Coda: Launch of Seasonal Fires
Ingrid de Kok’s book Seasonal Fires was launched this evening in Kalk Bay, inside the high-ceilinged bakery of the famed Olympia Cafe, as a kind of coda to the Cape Town Book Fair. The poet Karen Press introduced her: “Ingrid’s gaze is steady but also tender.”
Spotted in the crowd (in no particular order): Jeremy Cronin, John Samuel, Sue Clark, Amina Mama, Dominique le Roux, Mike Cope, Julia Martin, Helen Moffett, Annari van der Merwe, Hugh Hodge, Finuala Dowling, Ignatius Ticha, Tony Morphet, John Higgins, Neville Alexander and Gus Ferguson.
The first poem Ingrid read was in honor of someone absent, Luke Fiske: “When Children Leave” (p. 139).
Karen Press
…at the Olympia Cafe’s bakery, introducing Ingrid de Kok.
Tags: Amina Mama, Annari van der Merwe, Cape Town, Cape Town Book Fair, Cape Town International Book Fair, Dominique le Roux, Finuala Dowling, Gus Ferguson, Helen Moffett, Hugh Hodge, Ignatius Ticha, Ingrid de Kok, Jeremy Cronin, John Higgins, John Samuel, Julia Martin, Karen Press, Luke Fiske, Mike Cope, Neville Alexander, Poetry, Seasonal Fires, South African Literature, Sue Clark, The Margin, Tony Morphet, Umuzi
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The New Suffolk Hymnbook - Chapter One
“Jonah”, the first chapter of my first novel, has now been posted: The New Suffolk Hymnbook.
Feel free to use this entry for comments. (Click here.)
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