"To have lost even the why or the what for - to dream and to wake with the weight of even the mechanical why even the mechanical wherefore -"
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Women born in the 1950sPeople from PretoriaPoets from South AfricaEditors from South AfricaWomen authors from South Africa
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Joan Metelerkamp in the poem Sea.
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Joan Metelerkamp
Joan Metelerkamp (born 1956), is a South African poet. She was born in Pretoria in 1956 and grew up in Kwazulu-Natal. She was the editor of the poetry journal New Coin from 2000 to 2003.
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