LOVING THE DYING

45pp., paperback, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2023

ISBN: 9781496234681

Poems

"This is a brilliant, contemplative, passionate collection. Rich with 'un-' words - unreceiving, unanswered, undone - it leads us into the unknowable, invents a new country. A poetry of the afterwards, the collection reaches past 'unconfronted shadows' and 'old acrimonies' and ultimately toward love. No simple tenderness, this love, but schooled in a long knowing, finally earning the coming of 'something almost imperceptible, unforced, unbidden' that reveals 'the wilder wonder of all.'" Gabeba Baderoon, author of A Hundred Silences and The History of Intimacy

Len Verwey was born in Mozambique. He is the author of the poetry collection In a Language That You Know. His chapbook Otherwise Everything Goes On is included in the boxed set Seven New Generation African Poets. He lives in South Africa.