The Only Magic We Know

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The Only Magic We Know is a celebration of all the poets Modjaji has published. This anthology offers a taste of the range and diversity of the poems that have appeared in the individual poets� collections.

Informations

• Publié par: Modjaji Books
• Date de parution: 23 juin 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• EAN13: 9781928215899
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

Copyright is held by individual authors.
The authors include Ingrid Andersen, Marike Beyers, Melissa Butler, Margaret Clough, Christine Coates, Colleen Crawford Cousins, Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, Isobel Dixon, Sarah Frost, Elisa Galgut, Dawn Garisch, Megan Hall, Kerry Hammerton, Khadija Heeger, Colleen Higgs, Eliza Kentridge, Haidee Kotze, Sindiwe Magona, Michelle McGrane, Jenna Mervis, Joan Metelerkamp, Helen Moffett, Malika Ndlovu, Tariro Ndoro, Azila Talit Reisenberger, Shirmoney Rhode, Beverly Rycroft, Arja Salafranca, Karin Schimke, Katleho Kano Shoro, Thandi Sliepen, Annette Snyckers, Jeannie Wallace McKeown, Crystal Warren, Robin Winckel-Mellish, Wendy Woodward, Makhosazana Xaba and Fiona Zerbst
Copyright for this edition Modjaji Books 2020
www.modjajibooks.co.za
ISBN 978-1-928215-88-2 (Print)
ISBN 978-1-928215-89-9 (ePub)
Cover artwork and lettering by Jesse Breytenbach
Book and cover design by Monique Cleghorn
All poems previously published by Modjaji Books.
CONTENTS
Introduction
… when I set off in my best body
The white room by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers • 7 dinge wat djy nie van my sal wiet’ie by Shirmoney Rhode • Child in a photograph by Arja Salafranca
Walking the lioness by Robin Winckel-Mellish • Strange fruit by Helen Moffett • Falling by Crystal Warren • All the things I don’t know how to do by Kerry Hammerton • flying off the handle by C olleen Higgs • For a Change by Annette Snyckers
Skin matters by Khadija Tracey Heeger • The dance of the mustang by Tariro Ndoro • Polite conversations by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers Mermaid song by Haidee Kotze • Wanting by Megan Hall
Seahorse by Sarah Frost • myth of myself by Christine Coates “Flexi non frangi” by Joan Metelerkamp
A series of seven poems by Kerry Hammerton
My eyes die of hunger / as I make up my life
Love Poem to Papa I & II; Daughter notes by Katleho Kano Shoro Home Times by Christine Coates • a memory of my parents, circa 1977 by Colleen Higgs • The great learning by Sindiwe Magona Clipped/Geknip by Annette Snyckers • Sticks and stones by Beverly Rycroft • Caliban by Colleen Crawford Cousins • intentions by Colleen Higgs
Unfolding by Jenna Mervis • Ceremonial by Joan Metelerkamp Ceremony by Robin Winckel-Mellish • marriage by Colleen Higgs Four Voices of Marriage by Christine Coates
In the Beginning by Azila Talit Reisenberger • The work of pregnancy by Colleen Crawford Cousins • 17th April, 10h03 by Malika Ndlovu Blanket by Sarah Frost • Living in a shoe by Beverly Rycroft
Every man by Dawn Garisch • Earth Shades in Morning by Robin Winckel-Mellish • A question of time by Makhosazana Xaba Starting Over by Jenna Mervis • Morning Work by Karin Schimke Day by Sarah Frost • Worm music by Makhosazana Xaba Transformed by Jeannie Wallace McKeown • Anniversary by Megan Hall Nameless Places by Karin Schimke • Intimate by Robin Winckel-Mellish Beyond touch by Arja Salafranca • Intact by Joan Metelerkamp
To the Sisters by Dawn Garisch • To a friend, on getting older by Megan Hall • Foundation by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers • Seven year itch by Azila Talit Reisenberger • Diary of a relationship by Kerry Hammerton Geweld/Violence by Karin Schimke • Another North by Dawn Garisch How Healed by Karin Schimke • letting go by Colleen Higgs • Night birds by Arja Salafranca • Paper boat by Robin Winckel-Mellish
Folding by Joan Metelerkamp • Fragments: Weekend Mythos by Tariro Ndoro • Bequest by Beverly Rycroft • Waning by Ingrid Andersen Within Reach by Margaret Clough • passer-by by Marike Beyers Heritage by Azila Talit Reisenberger
Funeral Sounds by K atleho Kano Shoro • The disappearance of the dead by Megan Hall • Elegy For Paul by Jenna Mervis • The Home Bringing by Robin Winckel-Mellish • 12th March, 09h35; 28th April, 22h45 by Malika Ndlovu • another country by Colleen Higgs • ou werf by Thandi Sliepen • in memoriam by Elisa Galgut • Wearing Silence by Michelle McGrane
Penelope by Joan Metelerkamp
We have lived from birth in this fist of rock / And ocean
Across the River Kei by Sindiwe Magona • The Girl from Qumbu by Christine Coates • Kalahari Blue by Robin Winckel-Mellish School mornings before a test by Christine Coates • my Yeoville by Colleen Higgs • Steak by Arja Salafranca
Dancing on Robben Island by Megan Hall • now me heads by Thandi Sliepen • The way light falls by Haidee Kotze Sign Poem 34 by Eliza Kentridge • A person by Ingrid Andersen Retired by Arja Salafranca • 4.00 am by Michelle McGrane • Gangster’s paradise by Shirmoney Rhode • Jozi parks by Philippa Yaa de Villiers
History by Dawn Garisch • A young debriefing for Sankara by Katleho Kano Shoro • Trade Matters by Isobel Dixon • South African War Horses by Wendy Woodward • the women with steel necks by Thandi Sliepen • The leader by Sindiwe Magona • Spit not swallow by Katleho Kano Shoro
Unlikely by Colleen Crawford Cousins • Rock fig by K arin Schimke You told me by Makhosazana Xaba • Sixty-nine bullets by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers • Nouns by Isobel Dixon • Remembering s-21, Cambodia by Fiona Zerbst • Blood Delta by Dawn Garisch • The offending document by Tariro Ndoro • Land reform by Colleen Crawford Cousins Truths & Reconciliations by Isobel Dixon • Eurydice and the TRC by Elisa Galgut
Why? by Isobel Dixon • The things they do not tell you by Karin Schimke • Don’t mention the war by P hillippa Yaa de Villiers Spade by Katleho Kano Shoro • Burials by Fiona Zerbst
Finsong by Isobel Dixon • The first time by Colleen Crawford Cousins July by Fiona Zerbst • Winter From A Balcony by Jenna Mervis Telltales by Margaret Clough • Miskien/Maybe by Annette Snyckers Saturday: Spreading the news by Beverly Rycroft
Home by Khadija Tracey Heeger • The existence of home by Karin Schimke • Tong / Tongue by Annette Snyckers • in a strange land by Marike Beyers • Sign Poem 18 by Eliza Kentridge • Words to take to a desert island by Colleen Crawford Cousins • when I finally get to Bhutan by Karin Schimke
Materiality by Isobel Dixon • Sign Poem 7 by Eliza Kentridge The reckless sleeper by Haidee Kotze • Relativity by Helen Moffett Repetition by Tariro Ndoro • Recurral by Beverly Rycroft • Beyond by Fiona Zerbst
What mountains dream of by Helen Moffett • Tide by J oan Metelerkamp • At the World’s End by Elisa Galgut • Littoral by Colleen Crawford Cousins • Patterns by Fiona Zerbst
Hadeda geographies by Melissa Butler
To open up words, / unfold them to paper
What the dead say by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers • Stories by Wendy Woodward • Foolish mermaid by Crystal Warren • Bertha Mason Speaks by Michelle McGrane • The Minotaur comes to our picnic by Wendy Woodward • Envy by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers • Faith by Margaret Clough • the end by Haidee Kotze
How the architect lives by Karin Schimke • art by Thandi Sliepen Not every piece by Joan Metelerkamp • To Christina Rossetti by Helen Moffett • Waiting for Harry by Crystal Warren • Imagination by Sindiwe Magona • The Police Constable/Poet in Court by Margaret Clough • The Small Rain by Wendy Woodward
Lucky Bean Necklace by Sarah Frost • Enough by Azila Talit Reisenberger Words by Makhosazana Xaba • Rituals by Crystal Warren • It is a risk by Ingrid Andersen • Statement by Sindiwe Magona
Stone words by Khadija Tracey Heeger • cradle by Haidee Kotze Ek kan oek mooi woorde skryf by Shirmoney Rhode • The Accuracy of Letters by Elisa Galgut • Writer by Haidee Kotze • The Recalcitrant Muse by Michelle McGrane • Muse by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
Writer’s Block by Jeannie Wallace McKeown • Conduit by Sarah Frost voice by Marike Beyers • Taped beak by Karin Schimke
Points on poems by Joan Metelerkamp
List of Modjaji Collections
Author Index
INTRODUCTION
Colleen Higgs (publisher, poet): The Only Magic We Know is a celebration of Modjaji Books as an independent feminist publisher of women’s poetry. The poems have been selected from the forty-six collections of poetry published by Modjaji since 2004.
Joan Metelerkamp (poet): In a crucial way Modjaji has created the poets in this anthology simply by publishing them in the first place. Poetry by definition needs to be out in the world. Many of the volumes of poems Modjaji has published were ‘debut’ volumes, and then sometimes second volumes (an even harder thing for a poet to accomplish if she has no sense of where her poems might go). In my own case, other publishers were not interested enough in my work to take the risk that poetry publishing always is, although I already had six books published. And I don’t think it was just inflated ego that kept me going – it was the sense that there may be one or two, or some, people out there who might feel drawn to or by the poems which felt necessary to write.
Colleen Higgs: As yet these voices from Modjaji do not, cannot, represent all, or even many, South African women. Modjaji is proud to have published poetry in various languages in parallel text and as independent publicati