South Africa is a complicated, contradictory, and haunted place. Len Verwey captures the trajectory of life in such a place, dealing with childhood, war, marriage, divorce, and death. He explores the challenges posed by place and history, shared identities, deep embeddedness in the continent, and the legacies of violence and exclusion, as well as beauty.
Len Verwey is a South African poet. He was born in Mozambique in 1973. His chapbook Otherwise Everything Goes On¿is¿included in the boxed set¿Seven New Generation African Poets,¿and his poems have been published in various journals including New Coin and¿New Contrast.¿
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