OH, YES I CAN, CER

79pp., paperback, uHlanga Press, Durban, 2026

ISBN: 9781048300925

In her brave debut poetry collection Nedine Moonsamy chronicles her journey with cancer: the disorienting experiences of diagnosis and treatment, chemo brain and chronic pain, and how kind words can become their own special form of cruelty.

"Courageous, clever and compassionate, these poems are a testimony to the healing power of words." Kobus Moolman

Nedine Moonsamy was born in Johannesburg in 1983. She is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Johannesburg, and author of the novel The Unfamous Five (2019).