Publisher: Modjaji Books, South Africa
Navigate
In her second volume of poetry, Karin Schimke
explores the idea of home, contemplating notions of belonging and
un-belonging and the various places and ways in which one is “at home”.
With her characteristic lyricism, Schimke questions the poet’s right or
duty to speak, while delivering a meditation on love in all its cruel,
gleaming facets, as she traces her own psychic constellations back into
the blistering orbit of her father. Drawing from the blood and milk of
memory, in symphonic shifts of language, her poems are as forgiving as
they are furious, summoning both the elemental and the numinous in a
masterful painting of the relationship between people and the natural
world. Traversing the haunted landscapes of the past and present, the
political and the personal, Navigate is a psalm, startling in its
honesty, unforgettable in its beauty.
£18.00
About the author
Karin Schimke is a widely published journalist and columnist, and the Cape Times books editor. She also works as a writing tutor and mentor, an author of non-fiction – including the best-selling Fabulously Forty and Beyond, co-written with Margie Orford – of children’s books and of short stories. She edited Open, an anthology of erotic short stories written by some of South Africa’s best known women writers. Her poetry has appeared in South Africa Writing, New Contrast, New Coin and Carapace magazines. Bare & Breaking is her first collection of poems.
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