ISBN 9780620812245
Pages 70
Dimensions 203 x 133mm
Published 2018
Publisher uHlanga, South Africa
Format Paperback

In A Free State

a music

by P.R. Anderson

In this quite extraordinary sequence of poems, P.R. Anderson discombobulates and re-assembles the image and idiom of the various nations, landscapes and earthscapes of central South Africa. From first peoples, to those who took and settled on their ancestral lands, and to those for whom that land would come ancestral, In a Free State encompasses and compresses centuries of human drama into a fleeting and temperamental poetic narrative.

Yet this is no drudge, nor is it a historical yarn. With an easy mastery of form and metre, coupled with swashbuckling metaphorical and -textual flourish, Anderson’s new “music” is a bold and visionary work. A piece of South African poetry – and South African storytelling – unlike any other

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About the Author

P.R. Anderson

P.R. Anderson, born in 1967, studied at the Universities of Oxford and Cape Town; he currently lectures at the latter in English Language and Literature. He was the winner of the 2003 Sanlam Literary Award as well as the 2018 Thomas Pringle Award for Poetry.