This seventh collection from one of South African poetry's under-appreciated masters is possibly his best yet. Metatextual, meticulous and deeply steeped in sentiment, Liminal is an exquisite and at-times startling rumination on lives lived, loves loved and writings written. Skinner's technical mastery of his style and craft, honed over the decades, only brightens the emotions that run through a mélange of travel poems, remembrances, experiments and treatises on the nature of being, literature and friendship.
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Höhe: 203 mm
Breite: 133 mm
Dicke: 5 mm
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978-0-620-76256-4 (9780620762564)
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Douglas Reid Skinner was born in Upington in 1949, and went to school in Makhanda (Grahamstown), Kimberley and East London. For a living, he has worked variously as a driller and miner in the Northern Cape, a programmer and systems analyst in London and the USA, a publisher in Cape Town, a fine wine trader in England, and in house refurbishing and maintenance in Surrey, where he lives at present. He is the author of seven collections, including this title, and an edition of new and selected poems, as well as numerous translations. He is currently well known among South African poets as the editor of Stanzas magazine, and the English editor and translator for the avbob Poetry Project.
