Moira Richards reviews The Turtle Dove Told Me, debut collection of poems by Thandi Sliepen in The Cape Times today, Friday October 17th, 2014.
This poet is a visual artist and portraitist, and in the first part of her book, Sliepen’s words draw and colour the unique beauty of Africa with the eye of a painter.
In the second part, Sea, images of landscape and inhabitants dissolve, warp, weave, reshape as if viewed through restless waters before the poetry moves to narrative mood in sections of travel and search for peace, and a place that offers itself as home.
At last, wandering and the wanderer are at rest: the past, imprisoner and imprisoned, has wings to free and be set free; and a turtle dove urges one of us to “fly on/ fearful one / the world is full of beauty / where ever you may find it”.
This is the first in a trilogy tracing Sliepen’s return to Africa at the age of 18.
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- The Turtle Dove Told Me by Thandi Sliepen
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