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In A Free State: a music Anderson, P.R.

In A Free State: a music Anderson, P.R.

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In this quite extraordinary sequence of poems, P.R. Anderson discombobulates and re-assembles the image and idiom of the various nations, landscapes and earthscapes of central South Africa. From first peoples, to those who took and settled on their ancestral lands, and to those for whom that land would come ancestral, In a Free State encompasses and compresses centuries of human drama into a fleeting and temperamental poetic narrative.

Yet this is no drudge, nor is it a historical yarn. With an easy mastery of form and metre, coupled with swashbuckling metaphorical and -textual flourish, Anderson’s new “music” is a bold and visionary work. A piece of South African poetry – and South African storytelling – unlike any other 

Publisher: uHlanga
Published date: 2018-11-12
Page count: 92
Dimensions: Height:20.00 cm
Thickness:0.50 cm
Weight:500g
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