MATRIC RAGE, poems

81pp., paperback, Reprint, Cape Town (2015) 2018

“Gardini’s poems ride on a wildness of heart that accumulates its expressive power image by image, each bursting with knowledge of what it is naming ... This is a collection that delivers very much more than the “promise” of things to come.” Karen Press, Chimurenga Chronic

“Beautiful. Complex and challenging without being obtuse. Straightforward without being crass. Kind and empathetic and shining with goodness, but still angry.” Rosa Lyster, BooksLive

South African writer, theatre-maker, and educator Genna Gardini was born in 1986 in Durban and grew up in Johannesburg. She is currently completing a PhD in Drama at Queen Mary University of London, where she has worked as a Teaching Associate and Fellow since 2018. She taught at UCT and lectured at CityVarsity Cape Town, and in 2016 was awarded an ICA National Fellowship to work on MS Independent, a project about Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and creative writing.