CUTTING CARROTS THE WRONG WAY
edited by Kobus Moolman

October 2017
80pp
230x150mm
ISBN: 978-0-620-77591-5

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Step one: my father takes a piece of fish
and hooks it on the line, feeds it to the sea hoping
a twakkie, harder or redroman would bite
as he becomes a piece of poisonous bokkoms
shriveling in the sun feeding the fish themselves, 
trusting they would bite he understands that  fish
eat fish that eat the ocean that eats us, and
while my father tricks the fish to eat themselves
we eat ourselves when we eat the fish.

Poignant, urgent, and experimental – a new collection that explores the intersections between family, security, identity, society and food from new, emerging, and established writers in one of South Africa’s most vibrant creative writing programmes.

Featuring Nondwe Mpuma, Jolyn Phillips, Diana Bloem, Delia Meyer, Kerry Hammerton, Lisa Julie, Musawenkosi Khanyile, Shirwileta Williams, Julie Nxadi, Sindiwe Magona, Madoda Gcwadi, & Tamantha Hammerschlag.