The music in the ice
Subtitle: on writers, writing & other things
By: Stephen Watson
Publisher: Penguin Books (South Africa)
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780143026907
Subjects: Literature; History and criticism; South African literature (English)
Description: "In this collection of essays, Stephen Watson turns to the writers who have endured for him; to the places that have formed him; and always to the nature of writing and literature itself."--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Leonard Cohen & longing; title: Poetry & absence : one writer's account; title: Late Milosz; title: The clarities of Hemingway; title: The Madonna of Parnassus; title: Work & love : the letters of T.S. Eliot; title: Dante, Eliot & other things; title: The heart of Albert Camus; title: On Guy Butler; title: The meaning of an island; title: The rhetoric of violence in South African poetry; title: Four South African epitaphs; title: Bitter pastoral : a talk about the Cedarberg; title: Voting with my feet; title: Buiten Street; title: Afterword to a city; title: Hannah Hunter Watson; title: One foot-note.