<p>In one of the most anticipated debut collections of recent years Maneo Mohale reckons boldly with the experience of &ndash; and the reconstruction of a life after &ndash; a sexual assault.</p><p>Mohale&rsquo;s unapologetic and disarming voice carries through a budding and blooming&nbsp; garden of poetics rooted in a contemporary southern African tradition but springing forth in queer and radical new directions. Indeed this is a work encompassing the full often contradictory and seldom complete process of healing: where relations must be chosen as well as made; where time becomes non-linear and language insufficient; where nothing is what it seems yet everything is what it is.</p>