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What is Owed by Kelwyn Sole

In this, his ninth poetry collection, Kelwyn Sole gives voice to a wide range of concerns, characteristically interweaving the personal with a wider social and political focus. What Is Owed? explores many topics: questions of youth and aging; the complex and illuminating experience of living in contemporary South Africa; commentary on the literary world and on love and other relationships; and the eco-political. In these poems Sole explores themes familiar to readers of his work and also extends them; adding to his already considerable reputation as a poet unafraid to ask difficult questions and wrestle with issues of form and content.