Description
Known for her distinctive style that owes much to Emily Dickinson’s brevity, this new collection by Vuyelwa Carlin is divided into four thematic sections. The opening section explores the first few years of two children, and three poems are dedicated the poet’s own adult son, Joseph, and his struggles with autism. The second section uses the mediums of music and art to understand the aging process and how memories fade among those with dementia. The third section, named for the poet’s father, recalls child memories of growing up in South Africa. The collection finishes with an examination of the intense drama of one’s inner life, the struggle for spiritual truth in solitude, and ultimately the tensions between good and evil conveyed with a questioning intensity.
Animal Rhymes (Lift the Flap Book) 
101 Poems About Childhood 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
Poetry in the Making 
Immrama 
Being Alive 
Songs of innocence & of experience 
The 'White City' 
States of Happiness 
The Smeds and the Smoos 
Counting Backwards 
Luck Is the Hook 
Negative of a Group Photograph 
Insistence 
Of Sea 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes 
Time Is a Mother 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
The Moon Before Morning 
Disturbance