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Overview: "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.Leonard Cohen & longing -- Poetry & absence: one writer’s account -- Late Milosz -- The clarities of Hemingway -- The Madonna of Parnassus -- Work & love: the letters of T.S. Eliot -- Dante, Eliot & other things -- The heart of Albert Camus -- On Guy Butler -- The meaning of an island -- The rhetoric of violence in South African poetry -- Four South African epitaphs -- Bitter pastoral: a talk about the Cedarberg -- Voting with my feet -- Buiten Street -- Afterword to a city -- Hannah Hunter Watson -- One foot-note.

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Pages 381
Language Eng
Publisher Penguin Books (South Africa)
Published 2010
ISBN 10280104
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After spending years working in the corporate world, Stephen Watson finally decided to pursue a lifelong passion for writing. They currently reside in a quiet suburb where they spend most of their time outlining new stories, reading extensively, and occasionally attempting to bake.

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