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Women Write
Michelle McGrane
recommends ten recent releases by women writers
 Anna Akhmatova: Selected Poems (Poetry)
Translated by DM Thomas
Penguin Classics
ISBN 0-140-42464-4
Born in 1889 in Odessa on the Black Sea, Anna Akhmatova remains one of the powerful and heroic voices of Russian literature. Anna Akhmatova: Selected Poems, translated by DM Thomas, contains timeless poetry from her collections Evening, Rosary, White Flock, Plantain, Anno Domini, Reed and The Seventh Book. It includes her two great poem cycles, Requiem and Poem without a Hero.
 A hundred silences (Poetry)
Gabeba Baderoon
Kwela (in collaboration with Snailpress)
ISBN 0-7957-0228-0
A hundred silences is Gabeba Baderoon's third poetry collection. Following The dream in the next body and The museum of ordinary life, this new collection of elegant and beautifully crafted poems ensures Gabeba Baderoon's place among the most talented voices in a new generation of South African poets. Favourite poems: “Fit”, “I forget to look”, “Time running across the night”, “How to be alone” and “Learning to love failure”.
 At Her Feet (Play)
Nadia Davids
Oshun
ISBN 1-77007-055-9
A hard-hitting play suffused with tenderness, wisdom and humour. Through the
stoning to death of a young Jordanian Muslim woman in a land both far away and
undeniably close, Nadia Davids examines and interweaves the diverse life experiences
of four Capetonian Muslim women and the local world they inhabit. In different
voices, At Her Feet explores issues of culture, tradition, religion,
discrimination and sisterhood.
 Doo-Wop Girls of the Universe (Poetry)
Finuala Dowling
Penguin
ISBN 0-143-02504-X
Sparkling and vivaciously imaginative! Finuala Dowling's second
collection is divided into four parts: Peeling seaweed off our cleavages,
Feeling of falling and fleeing, My family as asylum and God
knows I'm a writer. Often disarmingly conversational in style, many of
the poems are remarkable for their psychological insight and engaging wit. Doo-Wop
Girls of the Universe is a rich assortment of funny, painful and exhilarating
poems. Personal favourites: “Boys we kissed”, “21 st birthday:
key not found”, “My guests”, “Talk, share and listen”
and “Doo-wop girls of the universe”.
 Madlands
(Fiction)
Rosemund J Handler
Penguin
ISBN 0-143-02502-3
The story of Carla Jensen, a beautiful, bright and unruly young woman who
has led a chaotic life. As she learns to live with her dysfunctional family
past and the diagnosis of bipolar disorder, the evolution of Carla's sense of
identity is ultimately empowering. Madlands is a virtuoso debut; a
sensitive, insightful, devastating and deeply moving novel.
 ISIS X
(Poetry & photography)
Edited by Allan Kolski Horwitz
Botsotso Publishing
ISBN 0-620-34878-X
An eclectic, vibrant collection of work by sixteen South African women poets and photographers from different walks of life and encompassing a wide range of personal experiences. It includes poems by Lisemelo Tlale, Baitse Mokiti, Myesha Jenkins, Makhosazana Xaba, Riana Wiechers, Bongekile Margaret Mbanjwa and Anna Anuradhá Varney. Photographs are by Neo Ntsoma, Suzy Bernstein, Riana Wiechers and Anna Anuradhá Varney. Favourite poems: “A little town at a time …” (elsbeth e), “Red Brick” (Sumeera Dawood), “Gathering redness” (Elizabeth Trew), “moon gift” (Anet Kemp) and “We reach out” (Arja Salafranca).
Body Bereft (Poetry)
Antjie Krog
Umuzi
ISBN 1-4152-0012-2
Antjie Krog is one of South Africa's leading poets. This compelling new collection confirms the power of her poetry and commitment to confront the deeply personal. With relentless and unsentimental scrutiny, Krog reaches into the gloom, bringing the taboo of menopause into the spotlight. She meditates on ageing, marriage, the political and the natural worlds. Personal favourites: “on my behalf”, “leave me a lonely began”, “writing ode”, “ode for another life” and “the indigent”.
 A Scent so Sweet (Fiction)
Praba Moodley
Kwela Books
ISBN 0-7957-0230-2
Praba Moodley was born in Pietermaritzburg and is the author of The Heart Knows No Colour. Her second novel, A Scent so Sweet, set in Durban in the first half of the twentieth century, is an evocative, enthralling novel about friendship, love and betrayal. A storyteller in the vein of Chitra Divakaruni and Laura Esquivel, Moodley weaves a fine, sensual web of enchantment around her readers.
 Where the Heart Is: A Writer in Provence (Memoir)
Marita van der Vyver
Translated from the Afrikaans by Annelize Visser
Double Storey
ISBN 1-77013-035-7
Well-loved South African author Marita van der Vyver recounts with heartwarming humour and, sometimes, frustration her experiences as a foreigner acclimatising to life in France. She tells how she met and married her husband, a Frenchman, and how their blended family confronts the challenges of their new life.
 Self Made Man (Memoir)
Norah Vincent
Atlantic Books
ISBN 1-84354-503-9
Norah Vincent, a freelance journalist, disguises herself as a man for a year in order to explore the male world, discover how men interact and why they sometimes behave the way they do. As her alter ego, “Ned”, Norah joins a men's bowling league, dates women, visits strip clubs, infiltrates a monastery and joins a men's therapy group. Self Made Man is an enlightening and courageous book. If it doesn't urge you to reconsider your preconceptions about gender politics, it will still give you plenty to think about.
LitNet: 29 June 2006
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