A PLACE TO NIGHT IN

60pp., paperback, Botsotso, Johannesburg, 2024

ISBN: 9781776495252

Poems by Frank Meintjies, author of the collections Lockdown Poems, Unfettered Days, Connexions and My Rainbow.

Foreword by Hein Willemse.

"The experiences described in A Place to Night In, although intensely personal, are suffused with a wider history of displacement, uprootedness and the search for a home. Frank Meintjies has taken the shards of a fractured past and transformed them into beautifully wrought and linguistically deft poems." Professor David Medalie, University of Pretoria

"Meintjies's poetry without fanfare and bells and whistles quietly defies the South African temptation to tell lies about ourselves. Instead, his mission is that of the excavator, an awkward truth-teller, a path-finder, the poet at work whose grappling with words reveals real truths and the will to move forward based on that which has been brought to light." Lisa Combrinck, author of An Infinite Longing for Love