By Bernard Levinson (1927 - 2021)

1974
First Edition

Inscribed to Henk and Dagmar Hooiberg.

“Levinson published five books of poetry, including, in 2020, a volume of his collected poems, which are taught at South African schools and universities.

He donated the earnings from his first book, From Breakfast to Madness, published in 1974, to a fund started by anti-apartheid icon Beyers Naudé, whom he greatly admired. This prompted a visit from the security police who took him in for questioning.”
(OBITUARY Bernard Levinson)

Printed by Raven Press, established in 1972 by Peter Ralph Randall, Danie van Zyl, and Beyers Naudé, was a South African anti-apartheid publishing house.[1]

Ravan Press was initially established to print the reports of the South African Study Project of Christianity in Apartheid Society (Spro-Cas). In 1974 it became a donor-funded oppositional publishing house, specializing in anti-apartheid literature.

Photograph of the author by David Goldblatt.

130mm x 222mm x 10mm

R1,500