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Hakahana
About This Book
Namibia is a land of contrasts like no other on the African continent. Hugh Ellis' poetry and accompanying photography brilliantly capture these contrasts, and how they manage to co-exist, juxtaposed, but together. Yet his poetry has resonance with the wider world, that someone in any other country will find meaning in his words, and take ownership of his experiences. Heart wrenching and hopeful at the same time, Hakahana is a collection to take along a journey, to read at home on a lazy Sunday, or any other place, at any other time.- Sheena Magenya, Gender activistThe poems demonstrate a cleverness with language and especially rhyme and metaphor, and the reader is left paging forward to see what subtle twisting of language Ellis will next employ. The collection as a whole is very easily readable, as well as thought provoking.- Alexander Brewis, Lecturer, Namibia University of Science and Technology
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Reading books
- Reaction
- Walking like the demon-possessed
- Life sentence
- Baking fruit bread on New Yearâs Eve
- Take up your cross
- The highway
- Babylon by bicycle
- I wish
- Pictures
- Africa Day, 2007
- Poem for the 16 days of Activism
- I used to want
- Living like leopards
- Poetic licence
- I want to sleep with someone
- How to be a performance poet
- Writing and photography
- Fact-finding mission
- Inter-city express
- 3/4
- Screen saver
- Hakahana
- The centre
- Three crosses
- Dreams
- End of year
- Eat a bird and think
- City of the bicycle
- Driving to see my love
- Lunchtime debate
- Nelson Mandela Avenue
- Steering wheel
- Sodom and Gomorrah
- Dances with words
- Poems before I go home from work
- The Taxi
- About the author