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An Obeisance to Frogs, is Robin Winckel Mellish's third poetry collection. In these pieces the contrast between the natural worlds of South Africa and Europe are brought into sharp focus, and her eye for detail and emotional connectedness to place and people are especially highlighted. The poems cross thresholds between animals, love and finally The Kaggen cycle, which is rich in mythology both personal and cultural. These poems offer up a precise honouring of the wild, with a deeply felt sense of attachment to a planet in peril.

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Littérature Africaine

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African

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Publié par	Hands-On Books
Date de parution	12 août 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781991240118
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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AN OBEISANCE TO FROGS
PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS
A Lioness at My Heels (Hands-On Books 2011)
Messages from the Bees (Modjaji, 2017)
An Obeisance to Frogs
NEW POEMS
Robin Winckel-Mellish
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Some of the poems here collected first appeared in the following magazines: Stanzas McGregor Poetry Festival Anthology New Coin Writing from Home Anthology, Amsterdam

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First published in 2022 by Hands-On Books, an imprint of Modjaji Books Cape Town, South Africa www.modjajibooks.co.za
© Robin Winckel-Mellish 2022
ISBN 978-1-928215-90-5
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying or recording, or be stored in any information storage or retrieval system without prior written permission from the publisher.
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Cover artwork by Fabrizio Ruggiero Design and typesetting by Liz Gowans
CONTENTS
PART ONE
The Swallows
An Obeisance to Frogs
Snake
Boulders Beach. Stony Point. Dassen Island.
We Came for the Whales
Two Birds
Aria
Earthward
Messenger
Oracle
On the Stoep
Encounter
The Iconic Southernmost Tip of Africa Builds a New Monument
Essence
PART TWO
Cicadas
Borderlines
Abandoned in Tuscany
Turning Point
Day in the Veluwe
The Garden Next Door
Chestnut in Winter
PART THREE
Sunday Morning in Paris
A Street in Amsterdam
It Will Happen
A Look at Love
Embrace
My Father’s Heart
Ode to Legs
The Wife of my Ex
Image
A Child Plays
PART FOUR
Kaggen, the Thief of Time
For Philip, John and Georgina
PART ONE
The Swallows
A bone-dry summer, showing
the shine of bleached stone,
ostrich heads down, great
bird bundles, black and grey
ships on the horizon,
only the sound of wind
and the purr of ocean when
the breeze turned my way.
I sensed it coming, thunder,
then a few drops, slowly
descending the Overberg
onto the plains, and by
the end of afternoon,
rain soft and delicate,
as if forgotten how to fall,
and a flight of swallows
flying suddenly, fast as bullets
over the veld, darting, swooping,
chirping, a feeding frenzy as
tiny insects rose up in the damp.

And then, as if knowing
that the earth had opened,
the rain beat down,
the fragrance of bush
and earth: damp bark
and wet grass,
the swallows gone.