Includes bibliographical references. / The lure of gold in the great reefs of Johannesburg near the end of the 19th century not only attracted the famous mining barons such as Cecil John Rhodes, Alfred Beit and Barney Barnato: working men also came from far and wide to feed their families with their labour. Among them was my great-grandfather, the miner from the Isle of Man, William Cogeen. He arrived via the tin mines of Cornwall and the silver mines of Colorado, and was among those Uitlanders who flocked in those early days to the Transvaal as skilled artisans - wheelwrights, farriers, bricklayers and, especially, experienced hard-rock miners. It was their labour, as well as of black tribesmen from all over southern Africa, that laid the financial foundation for what became the rich city of Johannesburg. It was also their influx that was the excuse that precipitated the Anglo-Boer War. His wife and daughters joined him in what was still a rough boom town, and they stayed on, until forced to flee as refugees from Johannesburg at the start of the war in 1899. Intrigued by the stories my mother and grandmother told me as a child, I began to research my family’s history and travelled to the Isle of Man, Cornwall and Colorado to trace their origins - and my own. This is the remarkable story of what happened to an ordinary working-class family who lived in extraordinary times, and my journey in their footsteps.

This collection is the result of an exciting approach to the study of creative writing by an academic institution. The opportunity to obtain a Masters Degree for the writing of poetry helped to energise my efforts to put together fifty-three new and unpublished poems. The poems are universal in their outreach, despite the fact that I have a particular life experience as a Black person in South Africa and the world of oppression and exploitation. Love in its various forms is a dominant theme in the writing: love for life, love for humanity, love for beauty, love as an expression of the need to oppose injustice and to strive for human freedom. Love at an intimate and personal level is also given a place of honour in the writing. Issues of political intrigue and concerns about the emergence of new strands of oppression form the sub-text of many of the poems. The need for democratic expression finds a voice in the writing and there is also support for a regenerative energy to strengthen the pillars of human freedom. This diverse collection mirrors the beauty of nature and the personal anguish of the poet. It also seeks to pose questions, about the nature of life and living and our presence, in the cosmos of a greater universe of meaning. I hope the poems succeed in their intention to inspire others.

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Bibliography: page 293. / Phillip Grier, architect and artist has told his students they should visit White Gables Hotel in order to understand the significance of urban and architectural planning. It is there he encounters Jenny who, seeking temporary accommodation, has taken her lecturer's advice. Their meeting is unusuaL He is drunk; on a bender to escape his inadequacies and obsessions, the result of a traumatic childhood. She is patently terrified at finding herself in such a disreputable place and clings to him for protection. Discovering that they were both abandoned at the same orphanage, children who were "not quite right", they form a deep bond of supportive friendship.

Bibliography: leaves 116. / In essensie is die manuskrip wat volg 'n versameling van my gedigte in Afrikaans en Engels. Verder word die digterlike stemme van Antjie Krog en Ingrid Jonker verken met die oog daarop om my eie poesie te verstaan. The thesis also focuses on the impact of illness and disability on my own creative processes and is an analysis of the gender constructs projected by my poetry and that of Ingrid Jonker and Anljie Krog . The work of C. G. Jung and secondary interpretations of his theories form the basis of this inquiry. The conflicting pOints of view around the terms anima and animus are explored. While special emphasis is placed on female archetypal structures, such as those coined by psychoanalyst Toni Wolff. Fairy Tale analyses, especially the dialogue between Clarissa Pinkola Estes and Mari-Louise Von Franz, seek to assist in understanding gender issues that are placed in the foreground by the poetry under discussion. In this regard the role of women in an archetypal context is discussed in conjunction with the feminist theories of, amongst others, Julia Kristeva and Simone De Beauvoir. The different strains of thought reflected in the manuscript complement and run parallel to one another, all addressing the common theme of gender.