Africa! My Africa!

Africa! My Africa! An anthology of poems Selected by Patricia Schonstein ISBN 978-1-874915-20-1 Africa! My Africa! is an anthology of some 190 poems, compilation of which began in 1997 simply by choosing poems that touched me. As the collection grew, similarity in the ‘types of fabric’ that made up the whole became apparent:Love. Song. Loss. Exile. Journeys. War’s folly. Figures in urban and rural landscapes. Wilderness. Simple pictures of life. Shades of the human condition. Pathos. Poignancy. The joy in small things. Light. The colours of Africa. The completed work seems to be a jewelled quilt, one that glows in the dark, rippling in a dune-movement of lyricism.