Books published by Protea Boekhuis

This seventh collection from one of South African poetry's under-appreciated masters is possibly his best yet. Metatextual, meticulous and deeply steeped in sentiment, Liminal is an exquisite and at-times startling rumination on lives lived, loves loved and writings written. Skinner's technical mastery of his style and craft, honed over the decades, only brightens the emotions that run through a mélange of travel poems, remembrances, experiments and treatises on the nature of being, literature and friendship.

From 1874 to 1881 a number of organized treks left the Transvaal in search of political independence and better living conditions. These so-called Thirstland treks were complex phenomena as a result of economic, religious and political factors.

The witty Pictures at an Exhibition follows the reader as a visitor to an art exhibiton from one painting to the next.