Still Further

by C.J. Driver

Imbued with a sense
of history – not to mention an ample wit and sharp eye for irony – C.J.
Driver’s first full collection of poems since 2005 is cause for
celebration. Selected from the many poems Driver has written and
published in magazines, booklets, and anthologies since his professional
retirement in 2000, Still Further manages to take in the international
scope of his many careers: as anti-apartheid activist, teacher,
headmaster, and – of course – as writer and poet.

While showing
an impressive range of formal poetics, weighty philosophy, and Driver’s
trademark political forthrightness, this is a book bound by love,
replete with reflections on family, companionship, and old friends
remembered. As such, this collection does not just portray one of South
Africa’s great living poets; Still Further is a testament to the value
of people – no matter how great or humble – whose shared lives and
histories make one’s own life worth living. Affirming, immersive, and
generously conceived, this is a must for any serious reader of English
poetry.

£17.00

About the author

C.J. Driver

C.J. Driver, always
known as Jonty, was born in Cape Town in 1939. He was President of the
anti-apartheid National Union of South African Students in 1963-4, and
during that time was detained in solitary confinement by the security
police. The renewal of his passport was refused when he was at Oxford in
1967. He became stateless for five years. His first two novels were
banned in South Africa and, even after becoming a British citizen, he
was refused permission to visit his home country until after the end of
apartheid. Driver has been a productive and increasingly celebrated
writer, publishing five novels, two biographies, two memoirs and twelve
collections or booklets of poems. He was a teacher for many years, in
Africa, Hong Kong, India and England, latterly a headmaster. Since his
retirement from teaching in 2000, he has been a fulltime writer. He
lives with his wife in East Sussex, England.