Fourth Child
1st Edition
Published on 5. April 2010
58 pages
978-1-920397-82-1 (ISBN)
Description
Megan Hall's first collection of poems, Fourth Child, has the texture of a carefully wrought, hand-stitched garment. It is something you want to bury your face in, like the familiar scented fabric of an item of clothing that belonged to a beloved who is gone. The Poems combine a dark humour and terrible grief with a lightness and restrained sensuality. Her language has the qualities of dance: uninhibited and polished, accomplished and vivid. Fourth Child shows a poet courageously facing deep feelings while being committed to accurate writing, making beautiful and living things out of the fabric of loss, grief, and emptiness.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Darning
- Gunshot
- Suicide notes
- Real
- What love is
- Anniversary
- To a friend, on getting older
- 14
- Wolwekloof
- The dead man and his lover
- Fourth child
- Seed
- Blame the ocean
- Leaving you
- You move fast
- The disappearance of the dead
- Love is a habit
- Who gave us this gift?
- Seams
- Star walk
- Ticking
- Dancing on Robben Island
- Cesaria live
- Dance hall
- Kiss
- Your red and secret lips
- Wantin
- Notes to the poems
- Notes on the author
- Back Cover
