Books published by University of KwaZulu-Natal Press

woman reluctantly takes on the responsibility of putting her eccentric rebellious mother into a retirement home, and managing her care. She has her own daughter to raise and nurture, a marriage and a business to hold together, and her own psychological troubles due in good part to how she was mothered.

Skeptical Erections is a book of startling visual and verbal imagination. In his poems Sapeta describes the deception and self-loathing prevalent in the people he encounters in his world, including (or perhaps especially) himself.

Lament for Kofifi Macu is Angifi Dladla's first collection of poems in English since The Girl who Then Feared to Sleep (Deep South 2001).

That kind of door, Finlay's fifth collection of poems, is a narrative of linked poems. A man loves a woman who lives on one continent and is a devoted father to his two sons who live on another - a situation that finds him sometimes in unbearable anguish.