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Across the Light

by Margaret Gough

132 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #08-0461; ISBN 1-4251-7569-4; US$13.25, C$13.25, EUR9.05, £6.84

These poems cover nine diverse areas of human experience, interaction and introspection. This most reticent of poets speaks with force and clarity of human joy and suffering - either as witness, or as participant.

About the Book

The book presents a variety of poems under nine headings:

Those headed To Catch a Poem speak of the mystery of the art itself, of the fugitive impulse from the Muse and the delicate art of its capture by the poet.

The nine poems headed The Earth Will Not Forget speak with compassion and grief of persons caught up in recent conflict and struggle for justice in South Africa. They relate both to that particular arena of human suffering and to a broader landscape of the human condition.

The longer poems headed Arising from Art present reflections in the poet’s mind from pictures or poems by others, while the dramatic monologues of Hic Loquitur. . . seek to explore the minds of others through imagining their individual voices. And in Legend and Myth storytellers from African mythologies speak in counterpoint with voices from Chinese, Shakespearian and 19th century English poetry.

Four evocative poems in the poet’s own voice come to us From Tuscany, and her own voice again speaks, in the main from the dark end of the spectrum of experience, in the eighteen powerful poems defining That which we are. In Something Else she takes us into a yet darker realm she well knows behind the natural world. Shadow and Shade complete the collection in twelve strong portraits of the world as this fearless poet sees it.

About the Author

Margaret Frances Gough was born in Port Elizabeth, a windy seaport on the southeast coast of Africa. She grew up in a loving family there and in two other South African seaports, and read English and Psychology at Rhodes University, taking M.A. degrees in Psychology and English Literature. She was married to Steve Geldenhuys, teacher and headmaster, from 1945 to his death in 2001. She has a daughter, Paula, and two grandsons, Giordano and Daniel.

Margaret has worked as a counsellor, with a special interest in brain-injured children, and has taught English literature at high school and university levels. She is active among the poets of her city and in their competitions, as either entrant or judge. Her poems have come to her - from outside herself, she feels - at intervals throughout her life. She lives in Port Elizabeth, where she was born.

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