C.J.(Jonty) Driver's new book of poems was published in South Africa in
August: BEFORE, a sequence of 22 poems, published by Crane River in
association with the Africa Sun Press. It was launched at the McGregor
Poetry Festival in South Africa in August, and
acclaimed.
The sequence begins:
"Again the dream, or do I call it that?
A memory of other dreams, returned
Like shadows of a long-imagined past –
And so once more I write it down, in hope
That doing so might give it shape or sense -..."
Jon Cook, sometime Dean of Arts at UEA, says this: "There is an unusual
honesty and courage about these poems. Beginning in memory or dream, or
in the strange terrain between the two, they constitute an autobiography
of the poet as a child and a young man.
But recollection does not secure either the past or the continuity of
the self..."
Vesna Goldsworthy, novelist and academic, says: "His South Africa can
equally stand for my Eastern Europe, and so many other troubled parts of
the world" and describes BEFORE as a "haunting, virtuoso
sequence...woven of unreliable encounters with a lost self."
Copies of the book are available from The Rye Bookshop or for £5-00 + £ 2-00 p&p from jontydriver@hotmail.com Also, Hilary Roome still has s for sale.
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