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Difficult Gifts
There is a balance of emotion and craft in Dawn Garisch’s poetry, a seamless welding of raw experience and self-observation, of music and thought. She writes the most personal spaces, always lit by her wry, focused understanding.
Ken Barris
Dawn’s poems reveal a warm, keen eye for the intricacies, delicacies and difficulties of language and love.
Tania van Schalkwyk
The motif of the body is central to Garisch’s work – like relationships it breaks/ is breaking; it changes – it can leave. It is also a place of sustenance, and offers the possibility of transcending grief. The images stay with me: the pungent eroticism in the poem ‘The Proper Use of Flowers’, or love encountered as a ‘trout that breathes polluted water’.
Alan Finlay
Forty-two poems by Dawn Garisch, a doctor who writes, a poet who walks, a researcher who dances. She lives in Cape Town near the mountain and the sea and has two grown sons. Her last novel, Trespass, was nominated for the Commonwealth Prize in Africa.
Ken Barris
Dawn’s poems reveal a warm, keen eye for the intricacies, delicacies and difficulties of language and love.
Tania van Schalkwyk
The motif of the body is central to Garisch’s work – like relationships it breaks/ is breaking; it changes – it can leave. It is also a place of sustenance, and offers the possibility of transcending grief. The images stay with me: the pungent eroticism in the poem ‘The Proper Use of Flowers’, or love encountered as a ‘trout that breathes polluted water’.
Alan Finlay
Forty-two poems by Dawn Garisch, a doctor who writes, a poet who walks, a researcher who dances. She lives in Cape Town near the mountain and the sea and has two grown sons. Her last novel, Trespass, was nominated for the Commonwealth Prize in Africa.
58 pages, Paperback
First published May 30, 2011
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