The mystery of life and the endless questions, with no answers
Friday, September 04, 2009
Reviewed by
DORCAS MOLEFE
Correspondent
View from an Escalator is an anthology of poems by a South African woman poet, Liesl Jobson. The anthology, of 35 poems, arises from a grant by the Centre for the Book under the National Library of South Africa. Jobson's awards and prizes are many including winning the POWA Women's Writing Poetry Prize, the Faye Goldie Award and receiving first prize in the English House Poetry Contest in 2003.
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