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Winner of the 2023 South African Literary Award for Poetry and a finalist in the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry and the National Institute of Humanities & Social Sciences Awards (Poetry Category)
From the Dryad Press website:
Endorsements
“Dark Horse is the best collection of poems I have read in years. One brilliant poem follows another. I finished it in one sitting and then started at the beginning again.”
– Finuala Dowling
“In her compelling second volume of poetry, Michèle Betty navigates the dark corners of the soul. In three sections – Verso, Inversus and Verbatim – the scars of loss are described with finely tuned perception. Substantial spiritual awareness is packed into these well-crafted poems. The reader is made aware of a symmetry between grief and acceptance as the poet uncodes foreign landscapes and the inner landscape of the self.”
– Joan Hambidge
About the Author
“Michèle Betty is the founder of Dryad Press (Pty) Ltd, an independent publishing press dedicated to the promotion and publication of poetry in South Africa. She has a BA LLB from Wits University and a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town (cum laude). Her poems have appeared in journals, both in South Africa and abroad, and have been widely anthologised. Her debut collection, Metaphysical Balm, was published in 2017.”
