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If not for the pandemic, I would be rereading Simon van Schalkwyk’s Transcontinental Delay on a plane going back to South Africa. The book’s evocative cover, of a rain-streaked window looking onto a plane wing jutting out into the high clouds, reminds me of the strange and lovely moment, last time I flew home, when a choir stood up in the aisles just before the descent to Cape Town and sang acapella. Unable to travel since March last year, stuck in the United States where I teach for a living, I have turned to Transcontinental Delay. This book transports me. With the restless music of its lines and fresh imagery – “Meanwhile, the ocean / ducks and falls like a penguin” – Van Schalkwyk’s debut collection has renewed my pleasure in reading, in the conversation between silence, memory and place that his poetry offers, at a time when many other books I have only half-read have done nothing to assuage the social isolation of lockdown. 

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