Earth Stepper/the Ocean Is Very Shallow (2ND)

This book is a redesigned second printing of Seitlhamo Motsapi's acclaimed "Earthstepper", first published in 1996. This collection brilliantly fuses pan-Africanist militancy, romantic spirituality, and scathing attach on neo-colonialism in its global and local forms. The political urgency is never compromised by empty rhetorical posturing or aesthetic banality: this is a rich, experimental poetry, raining down fresh imagery, complex concepts, carefully patterned to produce a volume of striking originality and stylistic rigour.