The Hurricurrent
Rosamund Stanford
The Hurricurrent is a book of unusual forms, surprising images, simple yet sophisticated language, encompassing doubt and humour.
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The Hurricurrent has a profound sense of lived-ness about it; of being felt and heard and experienced along the bone. It also has a unique quality in SA poetry of gently and naturally combining a local flavour and local voice with what one might call a more metaphysical voice, a voice concerned with giving the interior its rightful shape and sound.
– Kobus Moolman
There is a definite, inventive, audible voice in The Hurricurrent, which takes strength and originality from its precarious balance in the world, a voice constantly unlearning the ways we are taught to see, but also one capable of laying down two solid feet without losing a quirky, laughter-edged, unflinching note.
– Denis Hirson
Date of publication: 2011
ISBN 978-0-9584915-8-7
66 pages
200 x 130mm
R120.00
Rosamund Stanford 2015 |
Rosamund (Mindy) Stanford lives on a farm in the Eastern Cape, where she manages a retreat centre, and works as a writer and freelance editor. Previously she lived in Johannesburg, where for over 20 years she edited corporate and educational publications. Her poems have been published in donga, New Coin, sweetmagazine and, in French translation in the Revue Alsacienne de Littérature. Books published Short fiction Education
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Reviews of other poetry books by Rosamund Stanford
Review by Alexandra Johnson of The Peeling of Skies by Rosamund Stanford Wordstock, 2005 text PDF
Review by Rosamund Stanford
Review by Rosamund Stanford of Left Over by Kobus Moolman African Journal of Disability (Sabinet), 2014 text PDF
Short fiction
"That I cannot say" by Rosamund Stanford The Water Wheel (Sabinet), 2004 text PDF
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"Getting started as a writer" by Rosamund Stanford Centre for the Book Pamphlet Series, 2006 text PDF
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