Publisher: Modjaji Books, South Africa
Pages: 60
Year: 2021
Category: Anthologies & Collections, Literature, Poetry
Dimensions: 198 x 129mm
Between the Apple and the Bite
Poems about Women’s Predicaments in History and Mythology
The poems in ‘predicaments’ explore women’s responses to the constraints and consequences of choices they have made. Their responses are not much changed through the millennia of myth, history and into contemporary times. The poet reflects on significant moments in the lives of women such as Helen of Troy, Delilah and Joan of Arc, and the predicaments they are faced with in a man’s world.
£15.00 – £16.00
About the author
Sue Woodward has spent most of her life in Cape Town although she was born and educated in Johannesburg. She studied English and Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, became a teacher and then a writer and editor of educational materials and children’s stories. She has been published in many journals and anthologies and in 2019 won the McGregor Poetry Festival competition. between the apple and the bite is her debut collection of poetry. She lives in Muizenberg close to the sea, the mountains and the vlei.
Review
“She asks the primary questions: what is love, what is good enough mothering, how does a grown daughter negotiate a mother’s last years. my mother, my madness unfolds not only as a narrative but as a meditation, a spiralling towards the freedom that love and understanding bring.”
Joan Metelerkamp