Pillage

This new collection by Antjie Krog is published eight years after Synapse (Medewete), which received the Hertzog Prize for Poetry. Krog develops her familiar themes of family, body and land but this time in the harsh light of pillaging, whether by nature, humans, or old age. The poems reveal a painful fragility, an exasperation and even at times a blissful celebration trying to determine different ways of dealing with erosions, here and now.