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Step through Poetry Marí Peté Books



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Step through is Marí Peté's third volume of poetry. The book contains sketches by Dina Cormick, whose artworks can be found in South Africa’s Constitutional Court, and the Durban Botanical Gardens, amongst other places.

The title invites the reader to step through a book of poems about life in the 21st century, seeing through the eyes of a university teacher who lives in a South African city. What is it like in ordinary moments and transitional experiences – driving through Durban streets; teaching with new technologies and feeling its impact on the body, values and norms; witnessing birth; losing loved ones to death? To be married for 25 years; to experience a sudden empty nest when a child leaves for boarding school; to parent a teenager? To enter one’s 50th year? The poet steps through being disheartened, frivolous, depressed, reaches for anchors – humour, gardening, faith.

The poems are rooted in place – Durban’s Warwick Junction marketplace, the stars of the Midlands and rock pools of the Drakensberg mountains (KwaZulu-Natal); Rising Star Cave in the Cradle of Humankind (Gauteng province); the suspension bridge of Storm’s River Mouth (Eastern Cape); Robberg, the home of seal colonies (Western Cape); Hyde Park in London; Kirkcudbright and Dumfries (villages of Scotland).

While the majority of poems were written in English, there are a handful of poems originally written in Afrikaans, with translations into English – some done by the poet, and two poems translated by Karin Schimke, whose debut collection Bare and Breaking was awarded the Ingrid Jonker prize in 2014.

Poems in this collection were first published in the literary journals New Coin, New Contrast and Carapace; the research journal Qualitative Inquiry; the Sunday Tribune; The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology of 2012; The Art of Human Rights Catalogue; the websites of Badilisha Poetry Xchange, Indiefeed Performance Poetry, Art for Humanity and SlipNet.

The poem “Warwick Junction” was shortlisted for the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award in 2012.


Step through Poetry Marí Peté Books

Marí Peté's poems have the magic ability to narrow the gap between things and words, all the while drawing attention to the way in which words refashion the observed world. The poems in this volume are evocative and sensuously rendered, (un)layering the textures of a rich and strange world. The descriptions in these poems include acutely observed moments of travel; personal experience felt in moments of epiphany; wittily rendered senses of parenting; momentary senses of being rendered in haiku; and poetic meditation on a life experienced in elegiac mode. Peté's is a poetically striking voice that is well worth reading.

Product details

  • Paperback 116 pages
  • Publisher Leopard Press (December 6, 2015)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10 1920082069

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Marí Peté's poems have the magic ability to narrow the gap between things and words, all the while drawing attention to the way in which words refashion the observed world. The poems in this volume are evocative and sensuously rendered, (un)layering the textures of a rich and strange world. The descriptions in these poems include acutely observed moments of travel; personal experience felt in moments of epiphany; wittily rendered senses of parenting; momentary senses of being rendered in haiku; and poetic meditation on a life experienced in elegiac mode. Peté's is a poetically striking voice that is well worth reading.
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