I DREAM IN LONG SENTENCES the latest collection of poems by Farouk Asvat Winner of the Vita Award for his anthology A Celebration Of Flames "A Celebration Of Flames is a powerful, impassioned call. The sanity and courage of this collection arises from the poet's unique experiential perceptions of his milieu, making him one of the few who can write about these traumatic times with such lucidity and lyricism. The strength of Farouk Asvat's poetry lies in the way he intertwines the complex elements of social and political conflicts with intense personal relationships. The wide tonal range...

THE TIME OF OUR LIVES is the historically important anthology whose poems played such a pivotal role in the struggle against the height of oppression in South Africa. This completely revised edition includes several poems that were not in the original collection, and the organisation of the poems into a more coherent order. The Time Of Our Lives accurately portrays what it was like to live and fight, love and die under the discrimination and tyranny of apartheid. -It bears testimony to the resilience and courage of the oppressed in South Africa ... His poetry is devastatingly forthright and...

-In Bra Frooks ... Asvat uses witty, humorous, sarcastic and satiric language to expose the contradictions, emotional terrains and tensions in both Apartheid and post-Apartheid South Africa. He uses the lingo, voice and logic of the man and woman in the street to expose the absurdity of political repression and social control and the mediocrity and hypocrisy of political and religious dogmatism. The tenacity and resilience of people in the face of repression and suppression is exhibited by their ability to see the humorous side of every situation, laughing at the short-sightedness of their...

WINNER OF THE VITA AWARD -A Celebration Of Flames is a powerful, impassioned call. The sanity and courage of this collection arises from the poet's unique experiential perceptions of his milieu, making him one of the few who can write about these traumatic times with such lucidity and lyricism. The strength of Farouk Asvat's poetry lies in the way he intertwines the complex elements of social and political conflicts with intense personal relationships. The wide tonal range extends from sensual and delicate insights into the nature of passion to the satiric and humorous use of slang.- Vita...

"The legend of poet extraordinaire Farouk Asvat: ... like vintage wine, proper poetry matures with time, and like vintage art the voice and wisdom of a poet worth the name is timeless." Mphutlane wa Bofelo, kagablog " ... a guided tour of the souls of the South Africans he writes about and cares about. ... Hauntingly universal ..." Thomas Rome, New York "The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs ... is an important addition to any discerning reader's literary collection." Victor Metsoamere, Sowetan "Like hesitating snowflakes ... his words are fascinating in their capricious wilfulness ... like...

WEAPONS OF WORDS (c) Farouk Asvat Authentic literature is the bloodbeat of contemporary society. It transmits the pains and laughter of the writer's environment. It alerts against violations of the Truth. Literature does not develop in a void. It is a transformation of the reality into an artform, utilizing the dialects of the time; getting its shape, direction and field of concern from the social, political and economic forces that interact in a particular society. The creative writer is the conscience of the people, the interpreter of his society. ......