Light and After – Kobus Moolman

Description

“Deeper and richer than before, Kobus Moolman’s voice in the poem cycle Light and After gathers strength to climax in the third section Anatomy. Sometimes terse and astringent, sometimes luxurious, the poems are always specific, rooted in the cycles of earth and body. This is a beautiful work, distinctively South African in its imagery and diction.”

– Joan Metelerkamp 

“The reader is constantly located in the artist’s body negotiating between the physical space of bricks and mortar, and the inner, imagined reality which is a shifting, unreliable space… The highlight of this collection is the third section, titled ‘Anatomy’ … an extended meditation on the body as the place of fragmentation and reconnection, depersonalisation and reintegration…”

– Liesl Jobson, FMR Book Choice

About the Author

From the Deep South Website:
“Kobus Moolman has published eleven collections of poetry, two books of plays and a collection of short stories. He has won numerous local and international awards for his scriptwriting and poetry, including the 2015 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry for A Book of Rooms. He was guest editor of a special issue of Illuminations on new South African writing, and edited a special issue of Current Writing focusing on the teaching of creative writing. Moolman is currently Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English Studies at the University of the Western Cape.”