Landscapes of short stories is a reader-friendly anthology of 17 short stories chosen for the Grade 10 learner doing English as a Second Additional Language, and based on the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement. Many of the stories are from Africa, including South Africa, with others from around the world illustrating a rich storytelling heritage. Stories are divided according to theme: personal, humour, nature and science, crime, social issues, money matters, and politics and peace, and cover the vast metaphorical landscape of what it is to be human.

Landscapes of poems is a reader-friendly anthology designed for Grade 12 learners doing English as a Second Additional Language, and is based on the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement. It provides learners and teachers with insight into our own metaphorical landscape as well as a better understanding of others. Poems are presented in two sections: Poems from the canon of English poetry, which includes tools to interpret different poetry genres, e.g. ballad, epic, dramatic monologue, lyric, sonnet, ode, elegy and others; Poems from Southern Africa, arranged according to theme.

This text brings together a wide-ranging collection of poems from all over Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America, Britain and Australia. A variety of activities are included.

This poetry anthology contains explanations of difficult words, an alphabetical list of titles, discussion of literary terms, and an index of first lines.