Monday 28 Feb 2022 at 19:30 SAST
Gripscapes is a collection of 205 poems, unpublished before or obscurely published, from the life’s work of Norman Morrissey, is a new landmark in South Africa’s poetic landscape. The multi-layered editorial work of John van Wyngaard in assessing and selecting from Morrissey's large body of manuscript material distinguish this book.
The collection is arranged in three parts following the major periods of Morrissey’s writing life, from 1979 to the time of his death in 2017. The title is chosen from an early poem: “I mostly know a truth / By a sense of something slipping me - / Fin-glint and cold-muscled / Gripscaped touch.”
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