Patricia Schonstein - OTW at Kalk Bay - Oct 2010

Patricia Schonstein, our Featured Poet at Kalk Bay Books on 13th October, 2010.

She read a beautiful extract from her book "The Master's Ruse" about whales and the way they see us.  The write-up for the book is as follows: Set in a future time when the sea is biologically dead, in a country governed by a regime opposed to literature, The Master's Ruse is a surrealist narrative of an egeing author compromised by harsh laws governing literary freedom. 

The novel is an allegorical masterclass and a memoir of authorship and conscience.  It laments the desecration of the earth's fragile infrastructure and reflects on the crafting of fiction as a tool for peace.

For me (Sonja Wilker) it was a story within a story, with various different levels in Patricia's easily accessible style with vivid descriptions of poignant beauty and sadness about our fallability and humanity.
 

Open Mike

Neal Allen
Albert
Jenni Lean
Margaret Klapp
Lynne Harris
Lucille Dowkshas
Silke Heiss
Paul Mason
Lucretia
Lewis Watling
Oliver Price
Kathryn
Sonja Wilker

MC

Hugh Hodge