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9781772121216 | Univ of Alberta Pr, March 1, 2016, cover price $19.95
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9781505319866 | Large print edition (Createspace Independent Pub, April 12, 2015), cover price $9.88
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9781920397401 | African Books Collective, August 17, 2008, cover price $19.95
Product Description: From a mother's love to societal hypocrisy, The Accidental Poet: Poems of Ross Dix-Peek is a book of poetry that reflect the author's worldview as a White African. Eclectic and sometimes dark in nature, each poem will inspire you as you apply each beautiful message to your own life...read more
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9781609760809 | Lightning Source Inc, July 30, 2010, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: From a mother's love to societal hypocrisy, The Accidental Poet: Poems of Ross Dix-Peek is a book of poetry that reflect the author's worldview as a White African.
Dry, hot, cold, wet, the African continent presents an endless range of physical environments. Cultures abound, and a white man's interaction with Africa defines and inevitably illuminates time and space, specifies the pain and elation in what its environments present. Free verse lends its freedom to a fresh look at life in desert, jungle, and high mountain locales, allows the poetic hand to nail down its involvement with birth and death, freedom's wish and the endless cycle of renewal and defeat.
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9780253012920 | 4th edition (Indiana Univ Pr, April 18, 2014), cover price $35.00
9781452827551 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 18, 2011, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Dry, hot, cold, wet, the African continent presents an endless range of physical environments.
Product Description: While living in Tanzania, East Africa, Tam Raynor discovers fixed prose like Haiku and Tanka. When most homesick, Tam begins to express herself in poetry and she invites you to join her in reliving the exciting wildlife, the good people, the weather, the terrifying bugs, and much more...read more
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9781479282890 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 22, 2012, cover price $9.89 | About this edition: While living in Tanzania, East Africa, Tam Raynor discovers fixed prose like Haiku and Tanka.
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9781515380764 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 13, 2015, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Coming through the Apartheid era in South Africa, hunger and sadness were Prince's friend.
Product Description: Poignant, yet accessible poetry from the winner of the Ingrid Jonker Prize, one of South Africa's most prestigious prizes. Itâs crowded in the room. We turn about and breathe the vapours other people breathe. Where are you going this summer? My feet are broken alabaster, unremarked bits of the Venus de Milo...read more
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9781869191238 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, March 15, 2012, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Poignant, yet accessible poetry from the winner of the Ingrid Jonker Prize, one of South Africa's most prestigious prizes.
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9781484031377 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 2, 2014, cover price $9.25
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9781500325169 | Large print edition (Createspace Independent Pub, June 25, 2014), cover price $298.88 | About this edition: Heaven had to be in Recess because I know I just saw an Angel.
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9781550229158 | E C W Pr, April 1, 2010, cover price $16.95
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9781554909155 | E C W Pr, April 1, 2010, cover price $12.95
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9781456308537 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 18, 2010, cover price $10.00
Product Description: Alisa the Odessa Bride seeks to capture the struggles of a beautiful young woman in the modern age. The pressure for perfection placed on her shoulders by an unforgiving society and her own personal desire to impress and be accepted by the people and society she sorely detests...read more
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9781517294243 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 10, 2015, cover price $5.49 | About this edition: Alisa the Odessa Bride seeks to capture the struggles of a beautiful young woman in the modern age.
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9781451266276 | Publishamerica Inc, October 1, 2010, cover price $24.95
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9789988172817 | African Books Collective, May 8, 2011, cover price $20.00
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9781482354850 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 5, 2013, cover price $7.99 | also contains The Anti-slavery Alphabet
9781463599690 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 6, 2011, cover price $6.95
Product Description: Anxiety In Mosaic is a sum up of a man's fears and hopes into a volume of poetry; anxieties that span a cross section of the human phenomena of greed (in ramifications) and the resultant socio-political, economic and environmental consequences; the repercussions of worsted governance, feminist, ecological, emigrational and imperialist concerns, presented from the perspective of a philosophical questioning...read more
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9789956578146 | African Books Collective, October 15, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Anxiety In Mosaic is a sum up of a man's fears and hopes into a volume of poetry; anxieties that span a cross section of the human phenomena of greed (in ramifications) and the resultant socio-political, economic and environmental consequences; the repercussions of worsted governance, feminist, ecological, emigrational and imperialist concerns, presented from the perspective of a philosophical questioning.
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9788415455462 | Dykinson Sl, May 4, 2012, cover price $9.95
Product Description: I find it highly engaging and very readable. Tom Schaller has amassed a wealth of material and references to engage the reader with aspects from history, perception and psychology, fine arts painting, architectural illustration, and on and on...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780471284659 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, March 18, 1997, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: I find it highly engaging and very readable.
9780442009939 | Van Nostrand Reinhold, March 1, 1997, cover price $42.95 | also contains In the Heat of the Shadows: South African Poetry 1996-2013
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9781499300796 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 28, 2014, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A raw manuscript about the life of a harlot redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ.
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9781475931907 | Iuniverse Inc, November 1, 2012, cover price $9.95
Product Description: "Asking for Trouble", a treat for lovers of poetical expression. Henry Johnson Jr focuses on what our society is going through, through meaningful words that would cut through hearts and create unforgettable feelings. He touches on things that most writers won't even talk about...read more
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9781515276951 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 11, 2015, cover price $6.50 | About this edition: "Asking for Trouble", a treat for lovers of poetical expression.
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9789956763979 | Langaa Rpcig, March 1, 2012, cover price $20.00
Product Description: At Least the Duck Survived offers a series of lyrical observations about old age, retirement and approaching death; about Tai Chi classes, dogs, lesbian aunts, grandchildren, bicycles and symphony concerts. In its unassuming charm, perfect understatement, succinctness, attentiveness, generosity and wry humour, Margaret Clough's poetry proves Virginia Woolf's dictum that 'Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works...read more
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9781920397852 | African Books Collective, September 21, 2011, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: At Least the Duck Survived offers a series of lyrical observations about old age, retirement and approaching death; about Tai Chi classes, dogs, lesbian aunts, grandchildren, bicycles and symphony concerts.
Product Description: Donato Francesco Mattera has been celebrated as a journalist, editor, writer and poet. He is also acknowledged as one of the foremost activists in the struggle for a democratic South Africa, and helped to found both the Union of Black Journalists, the African Writer's Association and the Congress of South African Writers...read more
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9780620394864 | African Books Collective, January 19, 2011, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Donato Francesco Mattera has been celebrated as a journalist, editor, writer and poet.
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