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    Misheard
    Misheard
    Misheard
    Ebook94 pages19 minutes

    Misheard

    By Heidi Henning

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    Misheard is my story, written in the form of poetry. I cannot write about the bigger historical picture of South Africa, but I can write about my micro history. The small moments, the magic of childhood, the love of open wide spaced land, the loss and terror and pain of family. These poems are images of sisterhood, motherhood, childhood and my country. They are like punches in the solar plexus, taken straight from the nervous system and the heart. An original, forceful collection of words from the life of a woman with children, a sister and a child.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateJul 10, 2012
    ISBN9781477138380
    Misheard
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    Heidi Henning

    Heidi Henning was born in Johannesburg, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Wits University and a Masters in Creative Science from Edinburgh University. She has been frequently published in New Contrast Literary Journal and on litnet. Her first poetry collection, ‘Misheard’ was published in 2012 with Xlibris, and her second poetry collection ‘Calm’ was published in 2014 with Geko Publishers. She lives in Namibia with her partner and two young girls.

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      Book preview

      Misheard - Heidi Henning

      Copyright © 2012 by Heidi Henning.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This book was printed in the United States of America.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris Corporation

      0-800-644-6988

      www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk

      Orders@www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk

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      Contents

      Second Chance

      A Little Dream

      Misheard

      About Me

      Missing

      Hide and Seek

      Who

      Mountain Morning

      The Spell that Stuck

      Fairy Tale Files

      The Kind-Hearted House

      A Miniature Life

      Liberation

      Farm Picnic

      Evening

      When the Sea Lost Its Salt

      Exposure

      End

      The Emmerentia Jungle

      Le Bonaparte

      Shoemaker

      Puppet Show

      Child Room

      Greece

      Common Room Breakfast

      Tennis Court

      Practical Magic

      Schlesien

      Change

      Tugela Road Winter

      Emergency

      Searchlight

      Recovery

      Transatlantic

      Choice

      Photograph

      The Paper Palace

      Girlhood

      Takeaway

      One Year Ago

      Nights Awake

      Galaxy Gazing

      Rainy Day

      Christmas Eve

      You and Me

      Passport

      Carrot Soup

      Carrying Home

      The Flower Festival

      Seeker

      Playing in the Blue Bedroom

      Wexford Avenue Sundays

      Handstands

      Waking

      Every Day

      Homeward

      Missing

      Rainbow Collector

      Piano Lessons

      Potato Famine Family

      Autumn on Roodekranz

      Victoria Plum

      Also There

      And So I Said . . .

      Lost Property Cupboard in the Stars

      School Absence

      Lunchbox Days, for Ashlee

      Eensame Maria

      Herbivores and Carnivores

      Because

      Brave heart

      Memory of Dust and Snow

         (BreytenBreytenbach)   

      Mutations

      The Trouble With . . .

      Why, What, When

      The Little Princess

      Day of the Dead

      Ghost Town

      Christmas Calling

      Cabin in the Woods

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      For my family, old and new

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      Second

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