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The Summer We Didn't Die is Christine Coates' third poetry collection. It is an assured, tender collection that offers the reader a way to think about the mysteries at the heart of what it means to be human, in this place and time.

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These are poems of finely observed memory, poems of journeying and encounter-both inward and outward-to the mysteries of the heart, the mysteries of change and connection. - Kobus Moolman Christine Coates' poetry is lyrical, tender, and full of sensually charged memories. The Summer We Didn't Die succeeds both as odyssey and as elegy. - Finuala Dowling These beautiful poems never die. They remain alive through loss, grief, drought, fire and water, from the nineteenth century to the present day, from Hermanus to Istanbul, from Klerksdorp to Cape Town. Rhythmic, always enriching, the poetry keeps the reader close as Christine Coates' sure voice guides us through the world anew. - Wendy Woodward

"""These are poems of finely observed memory, poems of journeying and encounter-both inward and outward-to the mysteries of the heart, the mysteries of change and connection."" - Kobus Moolman ""Christine Coates' poetry is lyrical, tender, and full of sensually charged memories. The Summer We Didn't Die succeeds both as odyssey and as elegy."" - Finuala Dowling ""These beautiful poems never die. They remain alive through loss, grief, drought, fire and water, from the nineteenth century to the present day, from Hermanus to Istanbul, from Klerksdorp to Cape Town. Rhythmic, always enriching, the poetry keeps the reader close as Christine Coates' sure voice guides us through the world anew."" - Wendy Woodward"

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Christine Coates, a poet and writer from Cape Town, holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. She has had two collections of poetry published, Homegrown (Modjaji Books, 2014) and Fire Drought Water (Damselfly Press, 2018). Her debut collection Homegrown received an honourable mention from the Glenna Luschei Prize. Her poems and fiction have been published in many local and international literary journals and have been widely anthologised.

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