A note from Alan Finlay and Paul Wessels, editors of the donga anthology

it’s been a while… so much has happened… we’ve seen god, we’ve seen the alpha and the omega… paul beat mr death at his own game… so did stacy years later… alan holds out against the city folk… lionel and mark didn’t make it… the mud that caked our ankles has long since crumbled to sand and lies now like mementos of a long forgotten past on our unswept floors… the donga anthology edited by alan finlay and paul wessels will be launched in johannesburg tuesday 7 august 2012 5:30 for 6:00pm de la crème next to bookdealers of melville cnr 7^th street and 4^th avenue Melville… (cape town launch to be announced) we returned to the dugout a time ago, no sign of the lean-to, the ashes in the fire pit long blown away to reveal the grey earth of countless catfish braais… the wind caressed us, carrying off our tears as we turned to leave that place forever, having now gathered the words…

lionel abrahams

robert berold

lauren beukes

nadine botha

toast coetzer

gary cummiskey

jané dowd

clinton v du plessis

quen emmenes

graeme feltham

richard fox

stacy hardy

august highland

stephen hofstätter

aryan kaganof

chris kraus

bernat kruger

greg latter

arthur mafokate

dawie malan

joan metelerkamp

ike mboneni muila

pravasan pillay

leonhard praeg

lesego rampolokeng

arja salafranca

kelwyn sole

bill stobb

rayno van rooi

ivan vladislavić

paul wessels

stu woolman

apologies to those who do not appear in the anthology. no hard feelings. gary from dye hard and allan from botsotso bankrolled the project and we gratefully squeezed in as much as we could. maybe next time…