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Title: Unbelievers, or The Moor
Author: MATEER JOHN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/11/2013
Imprint: GIRAMONDO PUBLISHING COMP
Price: $24.00
Publishing status: Active
John Mateer’s previous poetry book Southern Barbarians traced the influence of the Portuguese empire in the Indian Ocean. Unbelievers, or The Moor takes this exploration one step further, to recover its Arabic and Islamic origins in Al-Andalus, the Moorish state which occupied much of present-day Spain & Portugal from the 8th to the 15th centuries. A seat of learning & culture, which combined Muslim, Christian & Jewish influences, it provides a model for Mateer’s own mixed background as a South African Australian, and for his nomadic identity as a poet. The collection is much concerned with influential but invisible histories; with the poem as a moment of connection between languages and cultures, so that it seems already to exist in translation; with doubles and hauntings, friends in far places, and above all, what Mateer calls ‘the irony of Elsewhere’.
ISBN: 9781922146502
Dimension: 210mm X 150mm