Author: Koleka Putuma
Published by: Manyano Media
Synopsis:
The best-selling debut collection from one of the country’s most acclaimed young voices marks a massive shift in South African poetry. Koleka Putuma’s exploration of blackness, womanhood and history in Collective Amnesia is fearless and unwavering. Her incendiary poems demand justice, insist on visibility and offer healing. In them, Putuma explores the idea of authority in various spaces – academia, religion, politics, relationships – to ask what has been learnt and what must be unlearnt. Through grief and memory, pain and joy, sex and self-care, Collective Amnesia is a powerful appraisal, reminder and revelation of all that has been forgotten and ignored, both in South African society, and within ourselves.
Winner of the 2018 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry
Commended for the 2018 Ingrid Jonker Prize
City Press Book of the Year 2017
A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2017
First edition, first printing, April 2017, uHlanga
Second edition published: November 2020
116 pages
200mm x 130mm x 12mm
ISBN: 978-0-620-90736-1
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