Introduction: Stimela: railway poems of South Africa

Title: Introduction: Stimela: railway poems of South Africa
Creator: Wright, Laurence
Date: 2008
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: vital:7058
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007420
Description: preprint
Description: A collection of railway poems is an unusual undertaking. More than an exercise in nostalgia, this anthology captures a large slice of modern South African life, viewed from different perspectives. Many of South Africa’s best poets have written railway poems. This is unsurprising, for railways hold special meaning for a variety of people – people in all walks of life – who find them not only fascinating but emotionally sympatico. The place of railways in the South African economy is changing rapidly, and it will be interesting to see in the coming years whether the less personal, more streamlined business model that is taking shape will attract the same naïve fascination engendered by South African railways over the past two centuries.
Format: 14pages, pdf
Language: English
Relation: Stimela: Railway Poems of South Africa, Wright, L.S. (2008) Introduction: Stimela: Railway Poems of South Africa. In: Stimela: Railway Poems of South Africa / selected and introduced by Laurence Wright. Echoing Green Press, Empangeni, South Africa, Stimela: Railway Poems of South Africa 2008
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