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Collected Poems (Paperback)
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This volume brings together the poetry wrtten over a period of 60
years by one of South Africa's distinctive poets. It is more than
an assembly of individual poems: together the poems tell a South
African story of a long journey of creative exploration. Many of
the poems are collected for the first time, while others appear in
print for the first time. The editor writes:;"This volume brings
together the poetic output of one of South Africa's most
distinctive poets. It covers a period of exactly 60 years, starting
with poems written as an under-graduate at Rhodes University in
1938, and finishing with poems completed in 1998. In the interval
we find one of the most compelling and substantial poetic
achievements to have appeared on the South African literary scene
for many years.;"The collection is more than an assembly of
individual poems. It tells a story, a distinctively South African
story, of a long journey of creative exploration.;"Because it is
embedded in this country's landscape and mindscapes, the collection
has a natural appeal for South Africans and those with South
African connections - the diaspora which political turmoil in one
way or another has scattered across the globe. But this work will
find a readership beyond those who, by birth or happenstance, are
in some way caught up in the story of the southern part of Africa.
Wherever skilled and loving attention has been paid to humans
living in a particular environment, a story emerges of commanding
and universal interest. This is the paradox which sustains the
global literary enterprise, and will, I believe, see increasing
attention being paid to Guy Butler's poetry.";Much of this poetry
is collected here for the first time, garnered from small journals
and periodicals in which it first appeared. Much, too, appears in
print for the first time. Its quality will astonish the world.
Stephen Watson, of the University of Cape Town, writes:;"Guy Butler
is a poet, above all, of what I would call the great primary
emotions: of love, praise, compassion, fidelity, friendship; of
hope tried and triumphant. The centrality of such subjects in his
work as a whole establishes his authenticity as a poet."
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