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Frank Meintjies has taken the shards of a fractured past and transformed them into beautifully wrought and linguistically deft poems.’’ To be followed by Lisa Combrinck who for many years headed the literature section at the Department of Arts and Culture: ‘’Meintjies’s poetry – without fanfare and bells and whistles –quietly defies the South African temptation to tell lies about themselves, about ourselves. 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