THE RIVER PEOPLE

126pp., oblong 4to., colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2024

Foreword by Ian McCallum.

A collection of "poetry, art (sculptures and beadworks), interactive teachings, quotations, counsel, stories and reflections ... a work that combines memoir and testimony with recent questions and learnings."

"This book integrates Word and Bead - The Presentation of a Journey, a book of poems, beadwork tapestries and prose reflections, published in 2001, with The River People, written during the latter part of 2023."

Includes Stephen Watson's 2001 introduction to Word and Bead.

Artist, writer, poet and lyricist Barbara Grenfell Fairhead (b. 1939) lives in Cape Town. Her previous books include Rio Abajo Rio, river beneath river, the novels A Trilogy: Of Death and Beauty and Whereof One Cannot Speak and the poetry collections Messenger and Kin.