Absent Tongues

Absent Tongues is
Kelwyn Sole’s sixth collection of poetry; a collection that speaks of
tenderness, anger, ambivalence and fear. This is territory Kelwyn has
long made his own – hymnal vignettes that thread the landscape of South
Africa with patterns of myth and people, with pasts, presents, and, at
times, with futures. We come away from these poems with something akin
to nostalgia, something like a yearning to belong in the most
fundamental sense – to be water, air, bone, sky. Kelwyn Sole writes with
grace, acuity and with thoughtful philosophical purpose, affirming his
position in the forefront of contemporary South African poetry.