Poetry
Bordering
Dorian Haarhoff · 1991
Synopsis
A collection of poems in English published in Johannesburg in 1991, the year after the independence of Namibia, the author's adopted country. According to the presentation of the Medellín poetry festival, it includes a poetic history of his country: Namibia is told in verse. The poems are not described any further.
Context
The collection appeared from Justified Press, in Johannesburg, the same year as the author's essay on the myths of the frontier in the literature devoted to Namibia from 1760 to 1988. It followed two collections published at the author's own expense, in Cape Town in 1978 and in Windhoek in 1981, and was followed in 1994 by Aquifers and Dust, from the same publisher. The author has also edited an anthology of poems by Namibian schoolchildren.
Who it is for
Poems in English, with no known translation; the content remains little described by the accessible sources.
Prizes and reception
The author was invited to the Poetry Africa festival in Durban and to the major international festival in the Colombian city of Medellín.
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