Publisher: uHlanga, South Africa
(There are shards of light also, but
I will say nothing about them.
A cellphone camera is recording
what may be shared of this moment afterwards.)
Unwanted
prayers on your behalf, kindnesses that you end up resenting – living
with visual impairment is less about matters of sight than it is about
problems of perception.
A life without mirrors is not a life
without self-examination. On the contrary, Jacques Coetzee’s debut is a
manifesto of personhood, a portrait of a world brought into being by its
textures, its movements, and – most importantly – its
music. Easy-flowing and sensuous, this is a collection of the
unexpected, the strange, and the suddenly beautiful. Unavoidably and
undeniably, Coetzee’s is a truly unique perspective.
£18.00
About the author
Jacques
Coetzee, born in 1972, matriculated from the Pioneer School for the
Blind in Worcester. He has worked as a busker at the Cape Town
Waterfront, and has tutored English literature to first- and second-year
university students. In 2002 he obtained a Masters in Creative Writing
from the University of Cape Town, and in 2018, he and Barbara Fairhead
published a joint anthology of poems, The Love Sheet. He currently lives
in Cape Town, where he is a singer-songwriter in the band Red Earth
& Rust.
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