Kobus Moolman, one of South Africa’s renowned poets, will grace
the LiPS (Live Poets Society) this evening (April 1) when he will be talking
and reading from his latest Book of Poems titled A Book Of Rooms.
“There must be
many secrets hidden in these rooms and I am sure that Kobus through his poems
is going to reveal many a secret and the skeletons that have been lurking in
the closet will be stripped of their surreptitious past,” says LiPS Convener, Danny
Naicker.
Kobus Moolman is the author of seven collections of poetry,
and several plays. He has won almost every poetry prize offered in South
Africa: the Ingrid Jonker prize, the PANSA award, the South African Literary
Award, the DALRO poetry prize and the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry award.
He teaches creative writing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
A Book of Rooms, Moolman’s
new collection of poetry, deepens the explorations of his recent books Light and After and Left Over. While the Beckett-like sparseness and doggedness is
still there, A Book of Rooms makes
use of a realist-biographical narrative form. Arranged into physically dense
scenes described as “rooms”, it inhabits the childhood and young adulthood of a
man with a serious physical disability growing up in a grim family in the final
years of the white side of apartheid. The reader is compelled right into the
character’s bleak and constant meetings with pain and failure. At the same
time, inside this present-tense current, there is a powerful will to live, with
sharp flashes of humour, and an even more powerful drive to know the truth.
The LiPS meeting will take place tonight (April 1) at 17h30
for 18h00 at 7 Kruin Crescent in Durban North. It is across the road from
Durban North College, just off Pembroke Road, one block up from Pick n Pay
Hyper by the sea, and one block down from Riverside Hotel). Admission is free.
For moreinformation contact Danny Naicker, Convener of the Live
Poets Society (LiPS) on 083 282 0865 or email: danny.naicker@ndengineering.co.za
A Book of Rooms by
Kobus Moolman published by Deep South, Grahamstown, is distributed by UKZN
Press, retailing at R90. ISBN
978-0-9870282-4-2
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