Award –winning poet and playwright, Kobus Moolman, will launch his new collection of poetry, Left Over (Dye Hard Press) at Ike’s Books & Collectables, 48A Florida Road on THURS 29 AUGUST 5.30 for 6.00 pm. Fellow poet and novelist Sally-Ann Murray will introduce Kobus’ new collection .
Kobus Moolman , who teaches Creative Writing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal , has just returned from a three-month writer’s residency at Rhodes University . Left Over his sixth collection of poems , describes the inner world of a man dealing with what the poet calls ‘being in the flesh , being a body in the world ;’ . Sparse but dense , the prose-like poetry is arresting in its intensity and power . as Cape Town critic Kelwyn Sole comments : “ Kobus Moolman’s elliptical , foreshortened poetry opens up a world of exploration and heightened experience from which the reader eventually emerges , chastened but delighted . These are poems of acumen , depth and extraordinary pressure “ . One of the poems is reproduced below :
There is something about his right hand too ,
something that terrifies him .
He can no longer click his fingers .
He can no longer put his hand
flat onto the table .
He can no longer feel
when he cuts or bruises or burns himself .
It is only the sight of blood
on his clothes or blood on the bedspread
that alerts him to an injury .
He wonders how much longer
he will still be able to hold himself upright
against the sky
