Animalia Paradoxa Halim Barakat A poet and artist

A poet and artist

targets of Nazi hatred

Lodge’s poems are rich in detail and narrative – astute observations that transport the reader to a whole new world with each turn of the page

he notices something weird: the books move on their own

restored the curtains to the windows

Animalia Paradoxa Halim Barakat A poet and artistA virus inflames a woman with mortal desire; a colonial naturalist seeks an impossible specimen; invisible violence stalks a safari; and a childs bullying summons archaic armies. Ranging from taut human drama to phantasmagoria, these scenes make rich and strange connections between ancient and new, human and animal, Africa and Europe, reality and dream. Includes prize winning stories as well as previously unpublished works from one of South Africas