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Notes from the Dementia Ward, won the Olive Schreiner Prize.
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Notes from the Dementia Ward, won the Olive Schreiner Prizein 2010. She has read at the Aldeburgh Festival, at Snape Maltings, and at all major South African literary festivals.
62 Pages, Paperback.
Notes from the Dementia Ward deals in part with the tragic-comic effects of the inexorable and distressing collapse into senility and the way in which memory and yearning come to the fore as a mix of poignancy and wit.
The balance between the grim and the touchingly comic is delicately maintained and the subject is imbued with dignity and grace. The dementia poems are interlaced with wry, ironic and compassionate poems that are the hallmark of this remarkable poet.
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