CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Preface
Obituary: Douglas Livingstone (1932-96)
1. ‘Our Uncommon Humanity’
Interlude 1: ‘The
Well-Wrought Urn’
2. Grimstown
3. A Ventriloquist’s Voice
4. Berea Rd Hotel
Interlude 2: Black and
White
5. ‘An Unredeemable Colonial’
6. ‘Wind of Change’: Sjambok,
and Other Poems from Africa
7. White-by-Night City: Eyes
Closed Against the Sun
8. ‘Inappropriate Social Manners!’
Interlude 3: Knowing
the Man, a Poet of Islam
9. On First Looking into Chapman’s Livingstone
Interlude 4: ‘Bread
and Circus’ from Dallas to Soyinka
10. Salt! Campbell, Smuts, Gandhi, Luthuli, Campbell
11. ‘Cracking the Cane at the End of the Day’: The Anvil’s Undertone
Interlude 5: Marching
from Pretoria!
12. Casanova in Modern Dress: A Rosary of Bone
13. Livingstone and Gwala
14. Footnotes for…
15. ‘The Passions/of Dolphins’
16. The Science of Poetry, the Poetry of Science
17. ‘Sometime Starmen’
18. Circling Back to Earth
Interlude 6: An
Ordinary Bloke?
19. Anxieties of Influence: Livingstone, Breytenbach, Soweto
Poets
20. A New South Africa?
21. The Dean of Humanities Invites Two (or Three?) Poets to
Lunch
Interlude 7: In Praise
of Mazisi
22. South Beach Transients
23. ‘Green’ Livingstone: A
Littoral Zone
Interlude 8. Two
Ordinary Blokes? Paton and Livingstone
24. Beyond the Biologist’s Microscope
Interlude 9: ‘Who’s
this Greybeard?’
25. Modernism in the South
26. Mafika Gwala (1946-2014)
27. A White African?
28. ‘We, Poets, We Try to Entertain’
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