A Rosary of Bone, by Douglas Livingstone (used)

Douglas Livingstone was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, in 1932. He qualified as a bacteriologist in Rhodesia in 1958 and since 1964 has lived in Durban, where he has worked on marine pollution and has published several scientific papers.

He is one of South Africa's most highly regarded contemporary poets. His work is known and published internationally and has won awards both in the United Kingdom and in South Africa - 'Man, nature, furniture, technology and architecture are woven together until they become a concerted Africa of the mind; shimmering, violent and moody. He has developed a remarkably exact poetic language with a metrical structure that has the controlled emphatic beat of classical verse ...' (Jonathan Raban).

A Rosary of Bone was first published in 1975 in Mantis Editions of Southern African Poets and now reappears enlarged by fifteen new poems. The collection has a particular unity in that its central theme is love, and it includes poems of passion, of loss, of gentle longing, of ribald humour and sardonic wit.

condition: good (worn cover)