Light and After
Kobus Moolman
Deeper and richer than before, Kobus Moolman’s voice in the poem cycle Light and After gathers strength to climax in the third section Anatomy. Sometimes terse and astringent, sometimes luxurious, the poems are always specific, rooted in the cycles of earth and body. This is a beautiful work, distinctively South African in its imagery and diction.
– Joan Metelerkamp
The reader is constantly located in the artist’s body negotiating between the physical space of bricks and mortar, and the inner, imagined reality which is a shifting, unreliable space… The highlight of this collection is the third section, titled ‘Anatomy’ … an extended meditation on the body as the place of fragmentation and reconnection, depersonalisation and reintegration…
– Liesl Jobson, FMR Book Choice
Date of publication: 2010
ISBN 978-0-9584915-7-0
64 pages
200 x 130mm
R120.00
Kobus Moolman 2010 |
Kobus Moolman has published eleven collections of poetry, two books of plays and a collection of short stories. He has won numerous local and international awards for his scriptwriting and poetry, including the 2015 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry for A Book of Rooms. He was guest editor of a special issue of Illuminations on new South African writing, and edited a special issue of Current Writing focusing on the teaching of creative writing. Moolman is currently Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English Studies at the University of the Western Cape. Books published Short Stories Plays Books edited |
Additional information
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Interviews & Articles
Biography of Kobus Moolman by Kelwyn Sole Poetry International, 2013 text PDF
Article by Karen Jennings on A Book of Rooms by Kobus Moolman Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2019 text PDF
Interview with Kobus Moolman by Shaun Pieter Clamp Illuminations, 2020 text PDF
Interview with Kobus Moolman by Gary Cummiskey Dye Hard Interviews, 2011 text PDF
Editor’s Introduction by Kobus Moolman Illuminations, Special South Africa Issue, 2017 text PDF
Other Links
Reading
Kobus Moolman reads from his chapbook All and Everything Impepho Press YouTube, 2020
Reviews of other books
Review by Dan Wylie of The Mountain Behind the House by Kobus Moolman critical diaries Blogger, 2021
Review by Stuart Payne of The Mountain Behind the House by Kobus Moolman Stanzas, 2021
Review by Joan Metelerkamp of The Mountain Behind the House by Kobus Moolman New Coin, 2021
Review by Denis Hirson of A Book of Rooms by Kobus Moolman New Coin, 2015 text PDF
Review by Jim Ferris of A Book of Rooms by Kobus Moolman Wordgathering, 2015 text PDF
Review by Rosamund Stanford of Left Over by Kobus Moolman African Journal of Disability (Sabinet), 2014 text PDF
Review by Kelwyn Sole of Left Over by Kobus Moolman New Coin, 2014 text PDF
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