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Poems that make it easier to live in South Africa

The poetry of Chris Mann is outstanding. His latest book, Heartlands, gives ample evidence of this fact. His poems penetrate places, people, utterances, situations, eras, things. There are poems that look at socio-historical changes in South Africa square-on and record without flinching the physical and moral degeneration that accompany change, but also the quest for the inner resources (seen within the longer perspectives of history and the ethics of perception) to deal with them ("Seymour"):