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Old boat by Michael Cope | Poems Rethabile Likes

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Old boat by Michael Cope | Poems Rethabile Likes × Books by Michael Cope Novels: Spiral of Fire (David Philip, 1986) Goldin: A Tale (iUniverse, 2005) Sunderland (Jacana, 2014, with Ken Barris) The Fall of Ugarit (Vanity Press, 2025) Poetry: Scenes and Visions (Snailpress, 1990) GHAAP, Sonnets from the Northern Cape (Kwela Books and Snailpress, 2005) The Craft (Left Field Press, 2017) Memoir: Intricacy: A Meditation on Memory (Double Storey, 2005) Other: Concerning the Work (Thin Ice Press, York, UK and River Press, Cape Town) — about the jeweller's tools ...

Kingdom of Rats by Rustum Kozain | Poems Rethabile Likes

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Kingdom of Rats by Rustum Kozain | Poems Rethabile Likes Kingdom of Rats by Rustum Kozain Home is where I want to be But I guess I'm already there — 'This must be the place', Talking Heads Everyone hates a bore Everyone hates a drunk Everyone hates a sad professor I hate where I've wound up. — 'Sad professor', REM Father, I have my kingdom of rats. In some rented room — the basin stained like a smoker's teeth — in its crawlspaces where I hunt, in cupboards I root, there is first the unmistakable smell of rat. They scatter royal droppings and flout their despi...