Homegrown (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781920590819)

Christine Coates is a poet and writer from Cape Town who spends many hours walking on the mountain or besides the sea. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. She has an interest in life-writing or memoir, and the recovery of personal history through public and private imagery. She translated her great-grandfather's Boer War journals and presented them in parallel text as a handmade, leather-bound book. She has undertaken the 800km pilgrimage across Spain, on the Camino de Compostela. Her stories and poems have been published in various literary journals: New Contrast, New Coin, Deep Water Literary Journal, scrutiny2, and the Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry Review. Her poems were selected for the EU Sol Plaatje Poetry anthologies 2011 - 2014.

Author: Christine Coates
ISBN-10: 1920590811
ISBN-13: 9781920590819
Publisher: Modjaji Books
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2014
Pages: 72
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.19lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.15d