Strange Fruit
Published on 13. September 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
58 pages
978-0-9802729-6-3 (ISBN)
Description
Strange Fruit is a courageous debut with a remarkable range in theme and tone, from the nostalgic to the comedic to the bawdy, and to the angry, the melancholic and the steadfast and comforting. It will delight, shock, anger, induce laughter, shock more, delight more. And make you blush. It's a full range. There are poems of brutally honest self-scrutiny - the heart of the collection being a series of poems on the ageing body, loss of love and infertility - and there are poems that capture landscapes with imagist skill and the botanist's detail.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sybrand Park
South Africa
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
96 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9802729-6-3 (9780980272963)
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Helen Moffett was born in Pretoria in 1961. A poet, editor, feminist activist and academic, her publications include university textbooks, an anthology of landscape writings, a cricket book (with the late Bob Woolmer and Tim Noakes), and the Girl Walks In erotica series (with Sarah Lotz and Paige Nick under the nom de plume Helena S. Paige). Her first poetry collection, Strange Fruit, was published by Modjaji Books in 2009. She lives in Noordhoek.