PUBLICATIONS
Pirogue Collective, under the Island Position imprint, publishes the Imagine Africa yearbook, the Pirogue Poets Series, and Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art in one major European language with the commitment to further publish editions in one major African language. Our tastes are inclusive though we are preoccupied with translation, exchange and the cross-pollination between mediums. Consequently, we do not subscribe to any one aesthetic location instead we are keen to drift from one to another: uninhibited, distracted, free.
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Introduced by South African artist, poet and Pirogue editor Breyten Breytenbach, the first volume in the Imagine Africa series from Pirogue is a programmatic, poetic and re-imagined assessment of the current state of the African Imagination. This collection of essays, art and poetry offers an invaluable look into the specific and general descriptions of everyday reality through a diverse, but convergent picture of present-day Africa from Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Trudy Stevenson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Corsino Fortes, Shailja Patel, Edouard Glissant, and Patrick Chomoiseau among others, selected from all fields of interest and expertise.
Click to read "Jacaranda Time" by Shailja Patel.
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Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art publishes original poetry, essays and images that aspire to challenge comfortable gestures and distinctions. These are translations, polyphonic exchanges across all conceivable borders—those of imagination, of language, and our inherited and enacted worlds of joy, repression, solitude, and violence.
Issue #1 / Summer 2011 is forthcoming.
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