Robert Berold
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All the Days
R120.00Robert Berold
Robert Berold’s All the Days is his fourth collection of poetry. The collection evinces all the characteristics of Berold’s trademark voice, so tellingly brought together in his last collection, Rain Across a Paper Field – his refined simplicity, his focus upon sharply defined and evocative imagery, a preoccupation with the natural world and the impermanence of the human – but here in this new book he pushes these elements further and deeper; both more deeply personal and less emotional at one and the same time.
– Kobus Moolman, New Coin
All the Days reaches further and sings more clearly than his earlier work. The reader will be struck by the spare lucidity of the language, the elemental sense of place – and the way love in the end gets the better of difficulty.
– Denis Hirson
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Poetry99
R160.00Robert Berold (ed.)
Poetry 99: Twenty South African Poets in Performance
Edited by Robert Berold
Co-published by Deep South and TimbilaIn 1996, 1998 and 1999 Robert Berold, then editor of New Coin, organised readings and performance festivals at the National Arts Festival held in July. The 1996 readings were recorded and issued on cassette tape as New Coin Live. The 1998 performances were issued on VHS tape as Jikaleza Train, with the text of the performances published in the New Coin June 1999 issue.
The 1999 performances were more professionally filmed. The twenty poets who participated were:
Robert Berold ~ Vonani Bila ~ Ingrid De Kok ~ Alan Finlay ~ Richard Fox ~ Louise Green ~ Colleen Higgs ~ Allan Kolski Horwitz ~ Nosipho Kota ~ Jethro Louw ~ Joan Metelerkamp ~ Isabella Motadinyane ~ Ike Muila ~ Siphiwe ka Ngwenya ~ Mxolisi Nyezwa ~ Donald Parenzee ~ Lesego Rampolokeng ~ Dudu Saki ~ Kelwyn Sole ~ Anna Varney.Financial constraints delayed the film editing, and the edited DVD and book was only issued 14 years later, in 2013. The urgency of the 1999 event was still there, as vital as ever. Mxolisi Nyezwa wrote in his introduction to the book: “There’s little of the earlier hunger and urgency in our poetry now. Today’s poets are not angry enough. They are as disconnected as the rest of our pliable society.”
Click on ‘Read Excerpts’ for a list of Contents and Introduction