Publisher: Modjaji Books, South Africa
Remnants Restante Reste
Her poems are as subtle and intimately telling as the differences
between the three languages in which she writes and battles to live and
dream. These verses touch and tug at one another like the Afrikaans of
her childhood, the German of her husband and the South African English
of her homeland. They agree to differ in all sorts of nuanced ways.
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About the author
Annette Snyckers is a visual artist and poet living in Cape Town. She
studied literature (English, French and German) at the University of
Pretoria and later Fine Art at the University of South Africa. She was a
high school teacher and translator before dedicating herself to the
visual arts. Her poems have been published in literary magazines, online
magazines and in several anthologies. She writes in English, Afrikaans
and German.
Review
“These beautiful poems, with their pellucid, stripped-down language, deep insights and the affinity they evince with animals both tame and wild, deserve the widest possible audience. Wendy Woodward is a South African Szymborska.”
Finuala Dowling
“In this, her first volume of poetry Annette Snyckers both
affirms and radically questions with steely restraint, her place in the
family of things and all the conflicting things of family.”
Danie Marais
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