Published in 1989
by Hippogriff Press, Johannesburg
ISBN: 0 620140 11 9
Available from the author.
“Contemplating emigration was like thinking about going to the moon. ‘Mt Moono’ began as an imaginary concept before I came to Australia. Maybe that process has not quite finished and I am always going to Mt Moono …”
Sample poems from this collection
Historical note:
In 1987, Hippogriff Press, a small press run by Prof. Shirley Pendlebury with Barbara Meyerowicz, published Phoebe and Nio, one of the first novels in South Africa to have been typeset with desktop publishing software – it won what was then South Africa’s most prestigious literary award, the CNA Prize. The publisher’s share of the prize money was ploughed back into Hippogriff Press, enabling then to release two small volumes of verse, one being Poems from Mt Moono.