Subject: Dennis Brutus at 80--special issue of Illuminations
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:17:30 -0400
From: "Lewis, Simon Keith" <LewisS-AT-cofc.edu>


Dear Poco-ers,
I'd like to draw your attention to the publication of Illuminations 20,
which features a tribute to Dennis Brutus in anticipation of his 80th
birthday in November this year. Here is the official announcement.
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ANNOUNCES PUBLICATION OF "ILLUMINATIONS"

The College of Charleston Department of English is pleased to announce
the publication of the latest issue of Illuminations: An International
Magazine of Contemporary Writing. In this issue, poets, writers,
academics and activists from around the world pay tribute to the
indomitable spirit of South African poet and activist Dennis Brutus, who
turns 80 on November 28, 2004.

Including two typically engaged new poems by Brutus himself, this
special issue features tributes from Nobel laureates and fellow South
Africans Desmond Tutu and Nadine Gordimer, poems by many of Brutus's
friends and admirers from South Africa, Nigeria, and the United States,
(including Peter Horn, Keith Gottschalk, Allan Kolski Horwitz, Gabeba
Baderoon, Tanure Ojaide, Martin Espada,  Marcus Rediker, and Bernth
Lindfors), as well as anecdotes and commentary on Brutus's influence on
contemporary poetry and politics in South Africa and worldwide.

Illuminations editors also have the good fortune of re-printing two of
Brutus's previously published poems in his familiar calligraphy, as well
as a number of pictures of Brutus from the late 70s on. The issue is
further enhanced visually by the inclusion of three pictures by
acclaimed South African photographer David Goldblatt.

Seeking to provide new writers from around the world with a magazine in
which their work could appear alongside the work of already established
writers, Illuminations made its first appearance in Columbia, South
Carolina in 1982 with poems by Seamus Heaney, Stephen Spender, and
newcomer Sam Boone. Subsequently edited from England, Japan, and
Tanzania, the magazine is once more back in South Carolina, at the
College of Charleston, shedding light on new writing from around the
world.

To order this special issue--or any back issues--directly, please
contact Simon Lewis, Editor, at Illuminations, Department of English,
College of Charleston, 66 George Street, Charleston, SC 29424-0001. 

                                * * * * ** * ***
 
Simon Lewis
Associate Professor of English
Editor--Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing
(http://www.cofc.edu/illuminations)
Director--Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World
(http://www.cofc.edu/atlanticworld.html)
College of Charleston
66 George Street
Charleston, SC 29424-0001
 
Phone: 843-953-1920; Fax: 843-953-1924
 


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