Walking, Falling
Kelwyn Sole
Walking, Falling is Kelwyn Sole’s seventh collection of poetry. With a wide variety of forms and tones, it extends and deepens themes that emerged in his earlier books: love and human relationships, the exposing of false and clichéd perspectives in our socio-political life, our relationship as South Africans to land and landscape.
*
Whether the theme is the end of a relationship or the murder of immigrants, there is the calm look of analysis, a voice, like a conscience, that threatens to disturb the reader’s complacency, but a voice simultaneously gentle with empathy and sincerity.
– Rustum Kozain
Date of publication: 2017
ISBN 978-0-9870282-8-0 / ebook ISBN 978-1-928476-24-5
108 pages
210 x 150mm
R160.00
- Biography
- Additional information
- Reviews of this book
- Interviews & Articles
- Other Links
- Scholarly Articles
Kelwyn Sole 2017 © Poetry Africa
|
Kelwyn Sole was born in Johannesburg and was educated there and in London. He worked in Botswana as a schoolteacher, in Namibia as an educationist and in Johannesburg for an anti-apartheid NGO, then taught for 30 years at the University of Cape Town, retiring as De Beers Professor of Literature in 2016. Books published
|
Additional information
| Weight | 0.5 kg |
|---|
Reviews of this book
Review by Rustum Kozain of Walking, Falling by Kelwyn Sole The Johannesburg Review of Books, 2017 text PDF
Review by Stephen Symons of Walking, Falling by Kelwyn Sole New Coin, 2018 text PDF
Interviews & Articles
Interview with Kelwyn Sole by Alan Finlay New Coin, 2021 text PDF
Interview with Kelwyn Sole by Elizabeth D’Arcy Current Writing, 2019 text PDF
Interview with Kelwyn Sole by the South African Poetry Project (ZAPP), 2017 text PDF
Article on Kelwyn Sole by Alice Meyer New Coin, 2016 text PDF
Other Links
Interviews & conversation
"Viva South African Voices": C. A. Davids and Kelwyn Sole in Conversation Wasafiri (Taylor & Francis), 2021
Interview with Kelwyn Sole by Gary Cummiskey Dye Hard Interviews, 2012
Interview with Kelwyn Sole by Jacques Coetzee African Books Collective, n.d.
Reviews of other poetry collections by Kelwyn Sole
Review by Kyle Allan of Skin Rafts by Kelwyn Sole The Johannesburg Review of Books, 2023
Review by Kylie Thomas of Absent Tongues by Kelwyn Sole Mail & Guardian, 2012
Review by Chris Dunton of Land Dreaming: Prose Poems by Kelwyn Sole Sunday Independent, 2006 text PDF
Sites with biography, poems, and audio reading by Kelwyn Sole
Biography of and poems by Kelwyn Sole incl. audio readings The Poetry Archive
Biography of Kelwyn Sole by Liesl Jobson, incl. poems Poetry International
“Introduction” by Kelwyn Sole: “A Selection of Contemporary South African Poetry” The Common, 2012
Video readings by Kelwyn Sole
Kelwyn Sole & Kirsten Deane poetry LIVE at The Commons, Cape Town The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Collective (YouTube Channel), 2024
Kelwyn Sole reading (with Tami Haaland and Mark Danowsky) Bridgewater International Poetry Festival (YouTube Channel), 2020
Kelwyn Sole at Poetry Africa, Durban Centre for Creative Arts (YouTube Channel), 2017
Poetry book reviews by Kelwyn Sole
Review by Kelwyn Sole of My Mother’s Laughter: Selected Poems by Chris van Wyk New Coin (Sabinet), 2020 text PDF
Review by Kelwyn Sole of Scrim by Haidee Kotze New Coin, 2019 text PDF
Review by Kelwyn Sole of ice cream headache in my bone by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers New Coin (Sabinet), 2018 text PDF
Review by Kelwyn Sole of Now the World takes These Breaths by Joan Metelerkamp New Coin (Sabinet), 2014 (open access review at Modjaji Books) text PDF
Review by Kelwyn Sole of Left Over by Kobus Moolman New Coin (Sabinet), 2014 text PDF
Review by Kelwyn Sole of Song Trials by Mxolisi Nyezwa New Coin (Sabinet – open access), 2000 text PDF
Review by Kelwyn Sole of Even the Dead: Poems, Parables & A Jeremiad by Jeremy Cronin New Coin (Sabinet – open access), 1997 text PDF
Review by Kelwyn Sole of A Celebration of Flames by Farouk Asvat Staffrider (South African History Online), 1988 text PDF
Review by Kelwyn Sole of Lionel Abrahams: A Reader by Patrick Cullinan (ed.) Social Dynamics (Taylor & Francis), 1988
Review by Kelwyn Sole of Black mamba rising: South African worker poets in struggle by A. T. Qabula, M. S. Hlatshwayo and N. Malange South African Labour Bulletin (South African History Online), 1987 text PDF
Articles on Kelwyn Sole’s poetry
Article by John Trimbur: "English in a Splintered Metropolis: South Africa After Apartheid" (mentions the poetry of Kelwyn Sole, Lesego Rampolokeng and Ike Muila) JAC (Journal of Advanced Composition) (JSTOR), 2009 text PDF
Scholarly Articles
Scholarly articles on South African Poetry
Article by Kelwyn Sole: “The Endless Deferral of Value: ‘Formal’ vs. ‘Sociological’ Criticism in Black South African Poetry” Wasafiri (Taylor & Francis), 2016 text PDF
Article by Kelwyn Sole: ‘“Here it is safe to assume nothing at all’: aesthetics and the impasse of South African poetry criticism” Scrutiny2 (Taylor & Francis), 2016 text PDF
Article by Kelwyn Sole: ‘’The Transnational Word: Poetry’s World of Influences" Contemporary Literature, 2011
Article by Kelwyn Sole: '"I Have Learned To Hear More Acutely”: Aesthetics, Agency and the Reader in Contemporary South African Poetry’ Cross-Cultural Poetics, 2009 text PDF
Article by Kelwyn Sole: “Licking the Stage Clean or Hauling Down the Sky?: The Profile of the Poet and the Politics of Poetry in Contemporary South Africa” Mediations, 2009 text PDF
Article by Kelwyn Sole: ‘“The Deep Thoughts the One in Need Falls Into’: Quotidian Experience and the Perspectives of Poetry in Postliberation South Africa” Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (De Gruyter), 2005 text PDF
Article by Kelwyn Sole: “The witness of poetry: economic calculation, civil society and the limits of everyday experience in a liberated South Africa” new formations (Lawrence Wishart), 2001 text PDF
Article by Kelwyn Sole: "Bird Hearts Taking Wing: Trends in Contemporary South African Poetry
Written in English" World Literature Today (JSTOR), 1996 text PDF
Article by Kelwyn Sole: "Oral Performance and Social Struggle in Contemporary Black South African Literature" from South Africa: New Writing, Photographs and Art (Edited by David Bunn and Jayne Taylor) Triquarterly, 1987 text PDF
Article by Kelwyn Sole: "Politics and Working Class Culture: A Response" South African Labour Bulletin, 1984 text PDF
Article by Kelwyn Sole: "Black Literature and Performance: Some Notes on Class and Populism" South African Labour Bulletin, 1983 text PDF
Other Deep South Books
Related products
-
otherwise you well?
R120.00Richard Fox
otherwise you well? a selection of Richard Fox’s poems written over 10 years, confronts the way predatory capitalism and its digital culture is cauterising humanity and nature. With taut momentum and often fierce humour, these poems describe the 21st-century predicament in a way that is both graphic and austere. In between, in a gentler style, are lyric poems of painful insight. And in between those, a very South African road trip.
*
Without any of the predictable doomsday warnings or linear unfolding, there is a frenetic energy moving through [this poem] which mirrors so well the way our overstimulated brains scamper in multiple directions in an attempt to make sense of these turbulent times […] The visual and visceral assaults are relentless to the point of that very feeling untethered that this poem ‘embodies’.
– Malika Ndlovu, judge of New Coin Poetry Prize 2021
on Fox’s poem “Animal Mind is Tripping” -
Lament for Kofifi Macu
R160.00Angifi Dladla
Lament for Kofifi Macu, Angifi Dladla’s second book of poems in English, was published in 2017, sixteen years after his first collection. The book shows Dladla making use of a wide range of forms, from lyrical to closely observed portraits, from elegiac to satirical, as well as poems inhabiting the African spirit realm. His poetic voice, always clear and memorable, varies from poem to poem: at times public or bardic in tone, at times intimate and tender, at other times bitter with accusation.
*
Lament for Kofifi Macu is Angifi Dladla’s second collection of poems in English and the title poem, which narrates the searing yearning of a young girl who longs for the return of Kofifi – an activist murdered by his handlers in exile – signals some of the central themes and stylistic devices in the book. The “lament” is not just the girl’s, but also the poet’s – for himself, and for those the poet speaks for in these poems, whom he calls the “double-wounded”, those betrayed by the new political and business elite post-1994. ‘Almighty Father,/ Healer of the double-wounded,/ hold this hand – charred/ in this freezing freedom’, the poet writes in “Prayer of the Wounded”. Dladla draws on different poetic forms and techniques – narrative, lyrical, eulogy, free verse, the impressive use of identical rhyme, the litany of praise poetry etc. – with frequent shifts in register, and in implied reader or audience, sometimes within the same poem.
– Alan Finlay
-
That kind of door
R120.00Alan Finlay
That kind of door, Finlay’s fifth collection, is a narrative of linked poems. A man loves a woman who lives on one continent and is a devoted father to his two sons who live on another – a situation that finds him sometimes in unbearable anguish. That kind of door describes his life in a lyrical sequence of taut musicality and precise imagery.
*
Broken lines, incomplete sentences, voices trailing off – That kind of door voices in its forms how attempts at kindness can be blundering. How we wish that best intentions would be sufficient. […] That kind of door points to the silences inside us, reaching, yearning towards the outer and inner borders between people and within ourselves.
– Marike Beyers, New Coin
-
Scrim
R120.00Haidee Kotze
The poems in Scrim have a taut musicality which is enhanced by their arrangement on the page. Precise in language and feeling, yet aware of the uncontrollability of language, they re-make the familiar in new and striking ways.
*
The exquisite and seemingly fragile beauty of these poems sits side-by-side with their intellectual and conceptual strength. In reading them I was continually surprised by the unexpected directions the poems took me: in a very real sense, the best of them embodied one poem’s injunction to “Look. Everything is always about to happen.”
– Kelwyn Sole, New Coin