Fishwife
In the tradition of Anne Sexton and Antjie Krog, this collection nets the strange and ordinary fish of women’s lives. Every poem presents a hook and the escape from the hook – a catch and release – with the truth and humour readers expect from Diane Awerbuck, who is most known for her ground-breaking memoir, Gardening at Night. It is an all-you-can-eat feast for any woman thinking about how she got to dry land.
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Fishwife
In the tradition of Anne Sexton and Antjie Krog, this collection nets the strange and ordinary fish of women’s lives. Every poem presents a hook and the escape from the hook – a catch and release – with the truth and humour readers expect from Diane Awerbuck, who is most known for her ground-breaking memoir, Gardening at Night. It is an all-you-can-eat feast for any woman thinking about how she got to dry land.
Fishwife
To live with the prince
I gave up song and argument.Here we are at the close.
He inherits the throne,
our children have souls,
the youngest won’t learn.
She goes for dancing lessons
and handsome sailors.My feet hurt.
They’ve rusted and spread,
red as the tide that brought me.But I’d settle again for the fisherman
who caught me with his bare hands
or ran a cold spoon against my scales,
beginning at the tail
and ending with the head.
Diane Awerbuck is a prizewinning author and teacher. She writes femme/goth thrillers (Home Remedies); memoirs (Gardening at Night); pandemic/cowboy science fiction (South, as Frank Owen; North, as Frank Owen); doctorates on trauma (The Spirit and the Letter); children’s books (https://bookdash.org/team-members/diane-awerbuck/); poetry (As above, so below) and short story collections (Cabin Fever; Inside your body there are flowers).
Diane is the great-grand-daughter of Raphael the seller of fish; the grand-daughter of Ettie the player of scales; and the daughter of Anne the teacher of schools of fish. She lives in Fish Hoek with her fingerlings.
