Rough Music: Selected Poems 1989-2013Ari Sitas is a distinguished sociologist, novelist, dramatist, a founder member of the Junction Avenue Theatre Company, and a cultural activist celebrated for his work in popular and worker theatre. As a poet he has written eight books, and collaborated with many visual artists and musicians. His poems are passionate, politically undaunted and wide-ranging, expressed with the exploratory instinct of a jazz improviser. |
Contents
from Songs Shoeshine and Piano 1992 | 21 |
from Slave Trades 2000 | 37 |
from Rhythmskewed 2000 originally in Greek 1991 | 61 |
from The RDP Poems 2004 | 71 |
from The Book of Accounting 2008 | 111 |
from 80 Days Around the World the India Section 2010 | 121 |
from Insurrections 2012 | 141 |
from The Vespa Diaries | 149 |
Klerksdorp | 151 |
Evening Song Durban | 154 |
Marikana | 156 |
Back cover | 161 |
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