Matric rage

The eagerly-awaited debut from one of the country's most exciting young poets, Matric Rage is Genna Gardidni's reckoning with youth, womanhood and morality. With hyper-literate, humerous and often heartbreaking poems, Gardini signals a wind change in South African poetry-where the personal is not just political, but polemical too. In sickness and sex, misogyny and manners, this is a collection that, above all, showcases a powerful writer coming unapologetically into her own.