BEYOND A DISTANT EDGE, poems

76pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2021

Introduction by Geoffrey Haresnape, poet, novelist and Emeritus Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of Cape Town.

"A panorama of poems that take a sweeping arc across the writer's life: from the distant shores of a childhood home, school days, visits to grandparents' farm, robots, war, to Egypt, Morocco, Syria, the streets of London and Cape Town, and the closer environment of home, a pub in George. This is a poet writing confidently, experimenting with form, shape, language. A skilful and crafted collection that allows the reader to travel widely at a time when we are all in lockdown." Christine Coates, poet and author of We Didn't Die and Fire, Drought, Water

Archie Swanson is the author of the poetry collections the stretching of my sky and the shores of years. He lives in George.