R200.00
Gathered Seams brings together nineteen poems from poets from Namibia, to Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi and South Africa. Their voices move between languages and landscapes, from kraals to mine dumps, carrying grandmothers’ hands and mothers’ absences, wooden spoons and stillborn lullabies. They hold violence alongside survival, grief alongside magwinyas, refusing to reduce anyone to only their trauma. Halala to nineteen years of Modjaji Books making space for women’s voices.
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Description
Gathered Seams stitches together nineteen voices from across southern Africa, from Mothusi Street to Queenswood, from kraals to mine dumps, from ancestral memory to urgent present. These poems carry grandmothers’ hands and mothers’ absences, broccoli grown for apocalypse and horses’ sun-bleached skulls, wooden spoons passed in collective resistance and lullabies sung for stillborn children.
Moving between languages with the ease of lived experience, these southern African women poets, from South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Malawi, refuse to reduce anyone to only their trauma. They hold violence alongside magwinyas, daily survival alongside dreams. Their poems occupy the full range of women’s preoccupations: intimacy and politics, landscape and displacement, grief and resilience.
Published as a celebration of nineteen years of Modjaji Books, this anthology makes space for the voices that need to be heard.
Featured poets
- Abigail George
- Tsholofelo Lebese
- Skye Ayla Mallac
- Patricia Schonstein
- Rutendo Chichaya
- Danille Elize Arendse (Bester)
- Diane Awerbuck
- Yvonne Fontyn
- Luto Skweyiya
- Nosipho Philisiwe Gumede
- Marthé McLoud
- Olga Leonard
- Mosa Neema Rabannye
- Emma Paulet
- Sethunya Hlobisa Matsie
- Vangile Gantsho
- Asante Lucy Mtenje
- Carri Kuhn
- Tshifhiwa Hellen Munyai
