Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; DESERT; Guava Sunset; The way; The desert ; Dar es Salaam; The women with steel necks; Nymbamungu; In the meantime; SEA; Now me heads; New South Africa; Capetown; Oma cloud; She sells sea shells; Three companions; We are different; The heron; Amandla; CAVE; Art; Blue overalls; Two companions; Full moon in the cave; The mother of the calf; Song for moona; The engagement party; Waiting for your return; The holkrans; Old man; CITY; Dogs lament; Clown city; Frankas village; Happy moles; The hyena and the lion; Time of the dogs. and The waste landWINGS; Surrender hill; School; The quiet ones; The field; Ou werf; Pigeons on the road; Reunion; You and me under the syringa tree; The riverbed; The turtle dove told me; Back cover.
Summary
The turtle dove told me is the long awaited, debut collection of poetry from emerging South African poet and artist Thandi Sliepen. The first of a trilogy spanning the years 1990 - 2010, this collection traces her return to Africa at the age of 18 in search of her roots. The journey starts in Tanzania, then overland to Cape Town, her home city, which she had last seen in 1976. Her search takes her to a stretch of coast in the Ciskei and then to Clarens in the Eastern Free State where she finally finds what she has been searching for. Art, love and the healing embrace of land.
