Pillage - Antjie Krog Genre:Poetry by individual poets faced with a new prison

faced with a new prison sentence

is exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners

standing loyally beside them as they battled their demons

hand sewers will have a collection of over 200 stitches at their fingertips - from basic chain worked into fabric�through to Florentine work on a canvas

and what ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching

Pillage - Antjie Krog Genre:Poetry by individual poets faced with a new prisonThis new collection, Pillage, is published eight years since Synapse (Mede wete), which received the Hertzog Prize for Poetry in 2017. In Pillage Krog develops her familiar themes of family, body and land but this time in the harsh light of pillaging, whether being done 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