Announcing Visitations by Adré Marshall, published by Crane River

uHlanga is proud to distribute, on behalf of Crane River, the debut collection by Adré Marshall, Visitations.

In a singular collection, Adré Marshall captures those intense encounters that take on the significance of a ‘visitation’. The poems are lyrical, humorous and elegiac by turn, even all three at once, and in her exploration of the complex interactions between people and the natural world, she finds many reasons in our modern times for both disquiet and consolation.

Poet Finuala Dowling writes that Marshall’s collection exhibits a “deep thematic connectedness that runs throughout... about paying attention to nature, the cycles of life and death, and human encounters with the wild.”

Adré Marshall taught English at various universities, most recently the University of Cape Town. Her poetry has been published in numerous anthologies and journals, she has read at the McGregor Poetry Festival and is the author of a book on Henry James.

Her translations from French into English include Le Grand Livre de la Mémoire and a book of critical commentary/articles for the Picasso and Africa exhibition at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town. One of her poems was placed 3rd in the 2022 AVBOB Poetry Competition, while another was shortlisted for the National Poetry Prize in 2023.

The book releases in South Africa in October 2024.