We’ve all gazed into a painting and got lost in it. With Walter Battiss, this can mean diving deep into the strange, strange world that the artist lived in. If you were me, you might even find yourself inventing a Fookian cuisine.
Around the table at a beautiful old house in Somerset East are four aspiring writers with big dreams. A poet and short story writer from Malawi; a retired schoolteacher in his 70s; a former politician with a dark family story to tell, and Juliette, the youngest, who lives in a shack.