COMMENDED FOR THE 2016 INGRID JONKER PRIZE FOR POETRY

“Beautiful. Complex and challenging without being obtuse. Straightforward without being crass. Kind and empathetic and shining with goodness, but still angry.” (BooksLive)

“Gardini’s poems ride on a wildness of heart that accumulates its expressive power image by image, each bursting with knowledge of what it is naming [...] This is a collection that delivers very much more than the “promise” of things to come.” (Chimurenga Chronic). 

“Heartbreaking and discomfiting [...] will haunt you.” (City Press)

Available in South Africa through uHlanga Press and globally at the African Books Collective.