“…The struggle of black people inevitably appear in an intensely cultural form because the social formation in which their distinct political traditions are now manifest has constructed the arena of politics on ground overshadowed by centuries of metropolitan capitalist development, thereby denying them recognition as legitimate politics. Blacks conduct a class struggle in and through race. The BC of race and class cannot be empirically separated, the class character of black struggles is not a result of the fact that blacks are predominantly proletarian, thought this is true…”- (Frank Talk Staff Writers in ‘Azania Salutes Tosh’ – circa 1981)
front cover:
Tosh by Steve Gordon
back cover:
Kippie by Basil Breakey
Heart's Hunger by Karen Press (Deep South, 2024)
Heart’s Hunger spans thirty years of Karen Press’s writing, including love poems, historical, political poems, lyrics, satires and poems of place.
Karen Press was born in Cape Town in 1956, where she lives and works as a freelance editor and writer. She has published ten collections of poems, including The Little Museum of Working Life (2004), The Canary’s Songbook (2005), Slowly, As If (2012) and The Loving and Loveable City (May Not Yet Be Here): An Atlas of the Cape Peninsula (2023). In 1987 she co-founded the publishing collective Buchu Books. In 2015 she received the Literary Translators Award for the translation into English of Mede-wete and Synapse by Antjie Krog.