Seasonal Fires: New and Selected Poems

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South Africa's most-talked-about contemporary poet's new and selected poems. South Africa's most lucid and composed voice in contemporary poetry, de Kok shares her ability to interweave the intensely personal world with the politically panoramic. - Antjie Krog Read the words aloud and allow each to linger on your tongue: histogram, grace, grenade. Read them and register what the best poetry does without pretence or apology: it gives us back our lives. - Susan Rich, Cape Times

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"Read these poems and register what the best poetry does without pretence or apology: it gives us back our lives." - Susan Rich, Cape Times"

Author Bio

Ingrid de Kok is Associate Professor at the Centre for Extra-Mural Studies, University of Cape Town. She has published three collections of poetry. Seasonal Fires is her first internationally-published collection.