ISBN 9781776495207
Pages 64
Dimensions 210x148mm
Published 2025
Publisher Botsotso Publishing , South Africa
Format Paperback

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by Abu Bakr Solomons

The gaze traverses continents probing a landscape epitomised by turmoil and triumph.

Political spectacle intersects with the quotidian seeming sporadic yet converges to form a map of unrest drawn by greed, oppression and conquest.

The interrogations stem from a familiar South African terrain yet lines between geographical borders become blurred as certainties are contested.

Signs of reconciliation, renewal in nature and traditions, courage and affection in bouts of memory and the past, offer glimmers of hope and salvation.

A call to reflect, unify and advance against a common enemy becomes an agency during the poetic journey.

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About the Author

Abu Bakr Solomons

Abu Bakr Solomons worked as a teacher and principal for more than forty years in high schools and primary schools on the Cape Flats and continues to serve the educational community at various institutions on a part-time basis. He studied English language and literature at three different South African universities and abroad. His poems have been published in Tribute, Akal (the journal of the Congress of South African Writers), Poetry Institute of Africa, Botsotso poetry journals, Sol Plaatje European Union anthologies, Sections of Six (Botsotso), New Coin (poetry journal of Rhodes University, Grahamstown) and New Contrast. His debut collection of poetry A Season of Tenderness and Dread was published by Botsotso in 2016 and received a commendation from the judges of the Ingrid Jonker Poetry Prize in that year.