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Poetry Evening next to the fireplace with Sarah Frost, Chantal Stewart and Lucienne Argent

Background photo fragment: Joël de Vriend | Unsplash

Dear Poetry Lovers,

Please join us for an evening of poetry next to the fireplace with Sarah Frost, Chantal Stewart and Lucienne Argent.

Sarah, who recently published her second collection of poetry with Karavan Press – River Fugue – is based in Durban, but she is visiting Cape Town towards the end of the month, and we are using this wonderful opportunity to spend an evening in her company. Together with Chantal Stewart, author of the award-winning novel The Veil of Maya who will be publishing her debut poetry collection with Karavan Press later this year, Let’s Be Legends, and Lucienne Argent, whose debut, Self-Portrait of a Guava, has been warming reader’s hearts since its publication in December last year, Sarah will be in conversation with Karina M. Szczurek, and all three poets will read from their collections. We will have a lovely fire, snacks and wine will be served, and books will be on sale. Not to be missed!

Limited space. Please RSVP as soon as possible to avoid disappointment: RSVP

We look forward to seeing you on the 31st!

Karina Author, Book

Karavan Press title: River Fugue by Sarah Frost

River Fugue is Sarah Frost’s second poetry collection, and continues with the search to find herself through her connections to nature which she explored in her first collection, Conduit. The poems grapple with the persistence of wonder, how one finds it, then loses it, then finds it again. By describing the loss, they evoke it as well, the absence accentuating even more strongly what she yearns for. The collection records a coming to terms with a difficult childhood, and the renegotiation of an adult relationship with the poet’s parents. Writing to forgive, the poet has crafted poems that are transcendent and affirmatory.

In language both luminous and illuminating, Sarah Frost deciphers inner and outer landscapes throughout this strong new collection. Love and grief, loss and forgiveness are mapped and navigated with consummate skill. Rites of passage, whether into poetry or parenthood, come to vivid life. Each change in the weather arrives with the urgency of revelation, and its mystery remains unexhausted at the poem’s end. In one poem, she laments having ‘lost those eyes ablaze with wonder.’ Each poem in this collection demonstrates that she has not.

– Jacques Coetzee

Publication date: June 2025

ISBN: 978-0-6398626-2-0

SARAH FROST was born in 1973 and is mother  to a twenty-year-old son and an eleven-year-old daughter. She lives in Durban, South Africa. She has completed an MA in English Literature at UKZN and achieved a first class pass in a module in Online Poetry at Wits University. She won the Temenos Prize for mystical poetry in the McGregor Poetry Competition in 2021. Her debut collection, Conduit, was published by Modjaji in 2011. She was a prize-winner in the Avbob Poetry Competition in 2023.

Karina Author

Author: Sarah Frost

SARAH FROST was born in 1973 and is mother  to a twenty-year-old son and an eleven-year-old daughter. She lives in Durban, South Africa. She has completed an MA in English Literature at UKZN and achieved a first class pass in a module in Online Poetry at Wits University. She won the Temenos Prize for mystical poetry in the McGregor Poetry Competition in 2021. Her debut collection, Conduit, was published by Modjaji in 2011. She was a prize-winner in the Avbob Poetry Competition in 2023.

River Fugue, Sarah’s second collection, is proudly published by Karavan Press.

Karina Author, Event

Sarah Frost reading at The Red Wheelbarrow

Join The Red Wheelbarrow on Thursday, 15th August 2024, on Zoom at 19:30 SAST for a reading by Sarah Frost, followed by an open mic.

Join via Zoom link or Meeting ID: 884 0600 8769 | Passcode: poetry

Sarah Frost works as an online editor for Juta Legalbrief in Durban. She has been writing poetry since she was nineteen years old, completed an MA in English Literature at UKZN and achieved a first in a module in Online Poetry at Wits. She won the Temenos prize for mystical poetry in the McGregor Poetry Competition in 2021. Her debut collection, Conduit, was published by Modjaji in 2011. Her second manuscript, River Fugue, will be brought out by Karavan Press later this year.