New Contrast Issue 212

In This Issue

Zoë Wicomb Tributes
The art and joys of the recurring difficult – Pumla Dineo Gqola 18
Red Hill – Rooiberg – Kai Easton 28
Zoë Wicomb’s University – Premesh Lalu 37
Two Journeys, Two Writers – gertrude fester-wicomb 43
Dear Zoë – Grace A. Musila 53

POETRY & PROSE

Cathedral of Copper Dust – David Anson Lee 58
The Number That Raised Us – Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr. 60
Abecedarian Johannesburg – Alisha Erin Hillam 64
dustbowl free state – Thandi Sliepen 65
Memory Cloth – Keane Farley 67
Liquorice Sweets – Cairistine Canary 69
When Soft Rain Falls – Ingrid de Kok 70
What I/to see, what to/do/ I read – Ingrid de Kok 71

Diana Ferrus Tributes
Iinkumbulo (yekaMama) – Diana Ferrus, trans. Athambile Masola 74
Reprise: elegy in her own words – Toni Giselle Stuart 76
A gathering at the foot of the Karoo – Jolyn Phillips 78
My ytkyk-antie: i tribute – Gaireyah Fredericks 81
Words can move mountains – Zubeida Jaffer 90
Writing Lessons – Bongani Kona 92
Dearest Diana – Nic le Roux 94
Lag by ’n begrafnis: A love letter – Sylvia Vollenhoven 96
Net nog Een keer – Laniëlle Hartzenberg 101
Die Geur Wat Bly – Laniëlle Hartzenberg 106

POETRY & PROSE

Surveil – Ed Schad 108
War of Attrition – Julia Maund 112
High Density – Timothy Dodd 113
The Sound of Scratching – Kobus Moolman 124
Crack Baby’s Quarter-Life Crisis – Wyley Jungerman 125
Genesis Nightly – John Horváth 129
Reassembly – Jake Dennis 131
silver thread – Nicholas Pagano 133
Erasure No. 3 / Good Heart – Sara Krassin 134

CRITICISM

Ukutshela kwisithunzi sesithethe esidlulileyo: izimvo ngoluncwadi
lwesiXhosa namhlanje – Lukhanyo Makhenyane 136
UMoya uthethile: isiNtu asinakushiywa ngasemva kudabi lomhlaba – Thiyane Duda 140
Review of From Man to Man – Madeleine Bazil 150