Gari M Joubert is an artist, performer, poet and writer. Book From The Black Box is the first body of his poetry to be published. It is an intimate and searing collection, sometimes tender, sometimes brutal but always exquisitely observed. Spanning near to fourty years, this highly captivating anthology resonates throughout with the essence of the mysteriousness of being and our continued struggle to decode it. The work is but a meagre measure of the body of poetry that Joubert has amassed thus far on his disjointed path.

Set in South Africa at the zenith of the mid-1980’s Durban alternative club scene, Uptown Saturday Night, Downtown Sunday Morning re-captures in sensuous detail the technicoloured vibrancy of the city’s counter-culture and its struggle within the oppressive regime of the day.

Charting an erratic course through Durban’s underbelly, the novel’s obtuse sharp-focus lens pulls you into the unhinged psyche of James DuPont and the Durban he inhabits. Acidly honest, it is in turn shocking¸ poignant and seductive.

An astonishingly unique testament to a lost generation and their city.