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Book · 2018
The History of Intimacy
Reflecting on personal grief, social history, and the tender aftermath of apartheid in South Africa, this lyrical poetry collection captures quiet domestic intimacies and the fragile bonds of kinship.
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Beautiful poetry, an homage to regions in the Cape, in South Africa, and to South Africans.
Elizabeth on Goodreads My list of favourite poems in this volume includes ‘Diving’, ‘The word’ en ‘Interval’.
Coenraad on Goodreads There are no simple answers, but Baderoon’s poetry does not shy away from attempting to forge an understanding, on a broader political scale and in the intimacy of our souls.
Karina Magdalena Szczurek on LitNet A beautiful poetry collection that indeed allows "a little of the hurt / to come to the surface / and stop."
Glen Retief on Goodreads This is the power of Baderoon’s poetry: it uses a gentle eye to consider all that is intimate between us, and in doing so, renders these quiet and still moments as sacred. In The History of Intimacy, she has rendered our most painful histories through an unobtrusive lens. She has written them with care, and left space and silence around them, so they (and we) may have room to breathe.
Toni Giselle Stuart on The Johannesburg Review of Books
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