ABOUT THE COLLECTION

A book of many secrets dedicated to the strangers all over the world

The collection deals with strange and mysterious subject matter such as mysticism, surrealism, Middle Eastern mythology, and dreams. It is a feast for the senses couched in vivid imagery and oneirism, but also ‘feeling states’ that read like montages in the absence of a rhyme scheme. Overall, the collection is like a ‘push-and-pull’ – a collision of complex thoughts and beliefs that often allude to duality within the mind and spirit.

you are moved to speak in many tongues but
have only one,
and this rented body is a machine of the machine
with a parasympathetic pulse,
automatic but aware…

beyond my grip,
many messengers will come in the dead of night:
man, woman, and sometimes a cloud…       .
an older you hiding in plain sight,
collecting time,
as they watch from the grey and white matter in
your brain,
to stalk every move in a device you barely know.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Zeenit Saban-Jacobs is a South African poet from the North-West Province who now lives in Cape Town. The 2022 winner of what was formerly known as the DALRO Prize (awarded bythe Institute for the Study of English in Africa at Rhodes University), her poems have been published in various magazines and journals across the country. Zeenit is a Film, Television, and Digital/New Media Lecturer in Cape Town, specialising in production and post-production for corporate, education, and social media branding. She completed her Masters degree in Creative Writing at the University of Cape Town in 2024.