Consumer news

Title: Consumer News

Writer: Eybers

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789021461878

Condition: Good

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Pierre H. Dubois in Ons Erfdeel: 'a poet who has always, since the maturation of her poetry, excelled in the use of irony and self-mockery as weapons in the battle against an oversensitivity that almost inevitably threatened her ever-present subtlety. Her character enabled her to resist this in an admirable way. It is therefore all the more oppressive to find this disposition in a series of poems whose theme is the unstoppable course of time and the inevitable decline that accompanies it.' 'I know of no poet - unless it is Emily Dickinson - in whom humour and irony are so imbued with tragedy, in whom tragedy is so deceptively embedded in a paradoxical capacity for camouflage, paradoxical because it makes tragedy all the more poignant.'

Elisabeth Eybers (1915) has lived in Amsterdam since 1961, where she has continued to write poetry in Afrikaans. In 1978 her work was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize and in 1991 she received the PC Hooft Prize.