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In Douglas Reid Skinner's eighth book of poems, a lifetime of writing becomes the writing of a lifetime. With verse ranging from the philosophical to the surreal, Skinner ponders the most universal of questions and concerns - how to live, and, perhaps more crucially, how to die. Through landscapes of ploughed fields, dream highways, and building sites alike, our human concepts of memory and literature are observed, retraced, or even deconstructed. Behind the easy intelligence and humour, Skinner remains a flagbearer for the traditions of South African poetry in English. Poems are written for writers and loved ones who have passed, others for those who have most of their years to come - all held in expert balance by a master of his art.
This seventh collection from one of South African poetry's
under-appreciated masters is possibly his best yet. Metatextual,
meticulous and deeply steeped in sentiment, Liminal is an exquisite and
at-times startling rumination on lives lived, loves loved and writings
written. Skinner's technical mastery of his style and craft, honed over
the decades, only brightens the emotions that run through a mélange of
travel poems, remembrances, experiments and treatises on the nature of
being, literature and friendship.
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