
Landscapes of Light and Loss
Stephen Symons(Author)
Dryad Press
Published on 9. November 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
82 pages
978-0-6399141-4-5 (ISBN)
Description
The poems in this collection bear witness with the crisp attention of a Robert Capa photograph. These ecosystems, each with their own by-laws ... hold together such a curious, nearly impossible balance in his new book. - David Keplinger, author of Another City (Milkweed Editions, 2018)
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-6399141-4-5 (9780639914145)
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Stephen Symons holds an MA in Creative Writing (University of Cape Town) and is currently completing a PhD in Historical Studies at the University of Pretoria. His poetry and short fiction have been published in journals, magazines and various anthologies, locally and internationally. His first collection of poetry, Questions for the Sea received an honourable mention for the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, and was also shortlisted for the 2018 Ingrid Jonker Prize. His unpublished collection Spioenkop was a semi-finalist for the Hudson Prize for Poetry (USA) in 2015. Landscapes of Light and Loss is his second collection of poetry.