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What is it like to be a young person in post-millennial, post-Internet South Africa? Jah Rose productions sought to answer this question by hosting a workshop for teenagers in a remote part of the country. This has resulted in this volume of unique poems and prose. Pocket Your Thoughts is a revelatory insight into the oft-misunderstood views of youth on the verge of adulthood, with myriad disparate emotions jostling for their attention.

 

In this book you will be moved to areas far-flung – from the grand themes of love and loss, to poverty and politics, the search for meaning and balance amidst life’s many challenges, to the realities of identity and place.

 

These are lines of thought whose language invites debate as well as poignancy. The hardships inherited in the country of the past versus the shock of the rapidly new and future possibility, where hope is the eternal commodity. Matters of the heart in their devastating beauty nestle between more ephemeral questions of existential import. You will find all manner of quixotic musings, steadfast and uncompromising, vulnerable and sincere. Pocket Your Thoughts is poetry as a way out – an elixir to shield against complex obstacles and a balm to soothe even the hardiest of cynics.

 

- Cecil Collett, November 2013

 

I have been paying attention to the work of JahRose Nthabiseng Jafta since September 2007 when she performed on stage in Bloemfontein. 

Her poetry both in English and Sesotho effortlessly makes an impact on you just as she verses the paper transporting it to stage. Firstly, writing in two languages sets the scene for a conversation between two worlds, each language a carrier of cultural-historical knowledge in the form of age-old phrases, idioms and proverbs. Secondly, writing in two languages in one volume creates unity and equality of both these languages, albeit symbolically. European languages have often been elevated to a status higher than African languages, even in Africa by Africans themselves. In both instances, I think, Jafta does not disappoint.  

 

That Jafta is first a word artist who made her name on stage comes out in her poetry because it is easy on the ear, even though she uses powerful images to convey her message. If the reader has had the advantage of watching her on stage, it becomes quite easy to visualize her powerful rendition when reading her poetry. 

 

... a feast of words and a rarity.

 

Sabata-mpho Mokae

July 23, 2014

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As we disperse letters that form words in the garden called life. Growth takes its course and seeds germinate and we become fruitful and supply nations to feed from these plants. Nthabiseng JahRose Jafta, a poet, writer, artpreneur, business woman and an author of note continues to fulfil her purpose. Her love for the words is emerging to become a living testimony of what her life has transpired to be. This book PeoPlanters speaks for itself as it entails seeds, plantation, and agriculture in the true sense of the poetree. As the seasons give each other platforms to shine, so this book has come seasonally to create an atmosphere of growth of these seeds.

 

This book will make you understand that everything begins with a seed, whether it’s an idea in the head or a seed in the earth, eventually these transform to real plants and ultimately life happens and like a cycle only to go back to where it comes from.

 

Another well-versed poetry account to be shared by the author herself here, as she cross pollinates with Lesotho, more countries are going to be receiving these seeds on their grounds and much more birth to flow, and since this is a journey more than a destination, may this book reach its desired fruition.

 

Hector Kunene  

December 2014

 

Totally like it, thank you! :-D

anna mosca

OCTOBER 12, 2014 AT 9:43 PM