Onkalo: available online from booksactually.com
ONKALO poems by Bernice Chauly published by Math Paper Press * “Direct, honest and sometimes very powerful” — J M Coetzee Onkalo (meaning ‘cave’ or ‘cavity’) is the world’s first spent nuclear repository, currently being built on the west coast…
Onkalo by Bernice Chauly reviewed by Jennifer Mackenzie
Onkalo by Bernice Chauly (Math Paper Press, 2013) Reviewed by JENNIFER MACKENZIE ‘Say it loud, say it silent’ (Socks) Bernice Chauly’s Onkalo begins with an extraordinary quotation in the preface from Michael Madison, director of Into Eternity, a documentary on…
Well Lit: A fiery, furious love by Umapagan Ampikaipakan
MEMOIRS are, by definition, works in progress. They should, for all intents and purposes, take a lifetime to write. They should communicate change. They should symbolise growth. They should be reflective. In an age where everyone is looking for their…
Exorcising her past
IT HAS taken 23 years for author, poet, actress and filmmaker Bernice Chauly (right) to complete her memoir, Growing Up with Ghosts. It’s the story of her parents and her ancestors. Her mother, a Chinese, and her father, a Punjabi,…
