New Contrast 192, Volume 48, Summer 2020 Jubilee Issue – Various

Mint condition literary journal

The JUBILEE ISSUE, Summer 2020, no. 192, features a selection of poetry, prose and art celebrating the past 60 years of Contrast / New Contrast.

It is impossible to acknowledge and honour every writer, artist, critic, editor, patron or director who has featured in the pages of the oldest existing South African literary magazine and contributed in the six decades of its existence to making New Contrast what it is today. The following is but a taste of the treasures contained within the covers of the 191 issues of Contrast / New Contrast published up to date. Please join us as we travel down this remarkable memory lane and look towards an even brighter future.

POETRY

GABEBA BADEROON Surface
SHABBIR BANOOBHAI Sages
AYANDA BILLIE Intsomi
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH ’n Wind
GUY BUTLER Commuter
YVETTE CHRISTIANSË Farewell
PETER CLARKE Late afternoon, Botswana
CHRISTINE COATES House at Kolmanskop
JACK COPE African Lake

PROSE

KEN BARRIS Five Minutes
JEANNE GOOSEN In Aronsvleibos
LIESL JOBSON Parable

ARTICLES

NADINE GORDIMER Three notes for an anniversary: 1) An unkillable rabbit family
ANTJIE KROG Manifesto
JAN RABIE Ons geliefdste: Uys Krige
RICHARD RIVE Contrast: the beginning