Botsotso

ISBN: 9780639886831 Purchase ABOUT THE COLLECTION Consisting of poems and flash fiction, this collection cuts deep as it exposes the swollen propaganda personas of a techno-feudal society exhibiting extreme inequality in terms of wealth and power. The seamless transition from genre to genre, and back again, is striking in that the taut, stripped style of the writer offers the reader contrasting images that merge to form a unified whole.

ABOUT THE NOVEL In this seminal novel of conflict and attempted reconciliation, we follow Kitso whose father had expelled him from the family home in Soweto on account of his youthful homosexual encounter with Themba, a local friend, but who returns for the first time since that trauma to attend his father’s funeral.

ISBN: 9780639886893 Purchase ABOUT THE MEMOIR In this memoir of the 1970s in New Brighton – the largest black township built by the apartheid system outside Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) – family relations and the development of the writer’s political consciousness and organizing abilities at the American-owned Ford Motor Company factory take centre stage.

ISBN: 9780639886855 Purchase ABOUT THE NOVEL This is a novel about the men who managed a potentially dangerous explosives manufacturing complex in the time of South Africa’s 1970’s revolution. It takes you into the manufacture of gun powder, detonators, safety fuse and dynamite and the need for safety, and the drama when safety can no longer be relied upon. It details the duties, the frustrations, the escapades and accidents of a chief executive’s life.

ABOUT THE COLLECTION BLOOD SKIN BONES is a poetry collection that covers diverse sub themes, from nostalgia to world politics to the admiration of the natural world to deep self-introspection. But the dominant packaging theme of this collection is mortality. Mortality of the body, the mind and the soul. It interrogates the perennial wrestling between a human entity and mortality. It dissects the conversation between the two entities.

ISBN: 9780639886739 Purchase ABOUT THE COLLECTION Thabiso Tshowa’s debut book of short stories, Mrova, is a striking collection of sketch-like tales that bring to life the rhythm, voice, movement, and activity of daily life in the small town of Bethal, Mpumalanga. From taxi bosses and young lovers, to promising young sports stars, spaza shop owners, and small-time thugs, the stories in Mrova embody the voices and attitudes of the people and places they depict.

ABOUT THE COLLECTION A thread that binds the ten stories in What the Trumpeter Said is their locations, exotic for some, routine for others – like life itself. Set in Botswana and other parts of Southern Africa, as well as Eastern Europe and the South Pacific, they feature (mostly) ordinary people in extraordinary situations, disentangling themselves from, or rationalising, ambiguous moral challenges.

ABOUT THE COLLECTION Written in an intensely lyrical mode with very strong elements of African narrative poetry, this collection is imbued with the spirit of the imbongi, in that its language is lush and overwhelming, incantatory and rhythmic in its power, Nelson Ratau incorporates social happenings with the larger than life, the heroic.

ABOUT THE COLLECTION “A daily writing practice over the past two years has led to my writing on a wide range of themes. I suspect that someone pours a little poetry dust into my ear each night as I sleep because I wake up with a few lines of rhyme from the dream world to tinker with from the first moment of the day. However, the pile of sodden clothes in the bathroom reminds me that it had not been an ordinary night – and that an effort to capture what had gone before, was required.

ISBN: 978-618-592-814-8 Purchase ABOUT THE COLLECTION volcanoed/ηφαιστειωθής is a poetry collection that attempts to capture a contemplative journey undertaken through the simultaneous use of English and Greek languages. Each double poem is not a translation of one another but rather the product of a process in which one version informs the other, and the two poems intertwine and evolve alongside each other.