More Than a Casual Contact by Jeremy Cronin (South African)

Published by Umuzi, 2006, softcover, 64 pages, condition: very good.

Jeremy Cronins fourth eagerly-awaited collection contains poems that are brilliantly accessible and, at the same time, polished performance pieces. Some poems deal very movingly with personal relationships between father and children, husband and wife. Others, designed to be performed, contain social commentary.Cronins debut volume, Inside, was awarded the 1984 Ingrid Jonker Prize. Like that collection, More than a Casual Contact compellingly combines political conviction with poetic clarity. In the words of acclaimed poet Ingrid de Kok, Cronin is our most experimental, demanding and, despite his disclaimers, one of our most accomplished lyrical poets.