Lava Lamp Poems

Lava Lamp Poems

Colleen Higgs

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Editorial:
African Books Collective
Año de edición:
2010
Materia
Poesía
ISBN:
9781920397258
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Colleen Higgs launched Modjaji Books, the first publishing house for southern African women writers, in 2007. Her first collection of poetry, Halfborn Woman, was published in 2004. She lives in Cape Town with her partner and her daughter.

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