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Sung: Ink in love & lust. The deliriously gorgeous rendition of the poem 'Femme' by the ever-glowing Samantha van der Wouden-Diedericks, who also painted the book's cover. View more of her art at www.samvanderwouden-diedericks.com 
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  Sung: Ink in love & lust.   The original painting based on the poem 'God lives in trees,' which was used for the collection's cover. Painting by the lushly talented Samantha van der Wouden-Diedericks.  Visit www.samvanderwouden-diedericks.com to view her wonderfully vibrant catalogue.

Sung: Ink in love & lust.

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  Sung: Ink in love & lust.   Critical reactions: This collection is a master class in brevity, an art not many poets are able to master. The short poems move effortlessly in the space of haiku with startling images that force the reader to go back and back again to find the gold in the lines.                                          His prose poem experiments are like short, poetic novels - sublime, dreamlike in their intensity and eroticism. This collection is fearless. It bristles with a unique vision of the world, love, lust and ultimately what it means to be human. [GĂ©rard Rudolf, poet, Orphaned latitudes .] ******* Raubenheimer’s voice is a unique one – a solitary one – one that is rarely heard in South Africa, or even rarely heard this side of consciousness. Some ...