Body Bereft
This new collection from one of South Africa's most respected poets and authors veers between two themes - growing old – specifically from a woman's perspective - and the eternal endurance of Table Mountain. This collection contains the poems in Verweerskrif, with the exception of three untranslatable poems.

About the Author - Antjie Krog
Antjie Krog made her debut as an Afrikaans poet while still in high school. Since then, she has published 14 volumes of poetry, two of which are in English. She is best known for her account of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Country of my Skull, which was published in 1988 by Random House SA. Down to My Last Skin, her first collection of poetry in English (published by Random House SA in ...[more about Antjie Krog]