"It is a gentle, reflective minimalism which reaches the soul, like a shadow passing across your face. Her willingness and ability to subject her personal experiences to such open scrutiny leads to pensive, but often trenchant, self-appraisal. An intimate glimpse into...
Winner of the Gratiaen Prize 2007 An academic and poet, Vivimarie VanderPoorten's creative work primarily deals with issues such as war, loss, death, violence, power and grief. She admits that pain - both her own as well as that of others and of society, in general,...
These are poems about love and loss, of betrayal, loneliness and grief, of relationships and of growing up, and of reconciling oneself to one's situation in the world, and coming of age. Interspersed with the personal are poems that resist the patriarchal world that...
