Animalia Paradoxa Tufula and the ability to make

and the ability to make a range of characters live and breathe

while ‘Song of the California Wildfire’ considers the Californian dream in the 21st century

are the number of startlingly beautiful love poems: ‘The Philobrutist’

comes from the mountains to say that clouds

Animalia Paradoxa Tufula and the ability to makeA virus inflames a woman with mortal desire; a colonial naturalist seeks an impossible specimen; invisible violence stalks a safari; and a childs bullying summons archaic armies. Ranging from taut human drama to phantasmagoria, these scenes make rich and strange connections between ancient and new, human and animal, Africa and Europe, reality and dream. Includes prize winning stories as well as previously unpublished works from one of South Africas