![]() ![]() This way, anyone interested in examining the original text will be able to find the words with ease.Īlthough The Yearning was published in 2016, it only reached the number one spot on my ‘December reads’ list on 21 December 2017. The first number indicates the page on Mashigo’s novel and the second number shows the exact line on the page, whence the words come. In August 2017 the novel won the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize for South African Writing.īelow I show-instead of explaining-where I found the words. I found these three poems, ‘Yearning’, ‘This togetherness’ and ‘To necklace’, in The Yearning, Mashigo Mohale’s debut novel, published in 2016 by Picador Africa. Something that was never intended to be a poem-a newspaper article, a street sign, a letter, a scrap of conversation-is refashioned as a poem through lineation. The fire is eating away at his throat and his lungsĪ borrowed text, a piece of writing that takes existing text and resets it as a poem. ![]() It’s too late to do anything for the burning man ![]() ![]() Also in this issue: ‘We bury our stories and wonder why we are in so much pain’-Mohale Mashigo talks to Jennifer Malec about The Yearning.Xaba found these poems while reading Mohale Mashigo’s The Yearning, as she explains below. As part of our January Conversation Issue, we present new found poetry by The JRB Patron Makhosazana Xaba, a creative effort that creates a dialogue between two literary imaginations. ![]()
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