Mario's work has featured in many publications over the years and his writing - prose and poetry - has been critically acclaimed thanks to its unfailing honesty and the warmth of his poetic voice.
"If you read no other African writer this decade, read this one...you'll laugh with him, cry with him, mourn with him, rejoice with him and ultimately triumph with him." - Leadership Magazine
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Banana Crates and Wire Mesh spans several decades and sheds Mario d'Offizi's unique and often brutally honest light on a wide range of subjects, from the taboo to the mundane. Mario published his first poetry at an early age, but Banana Crates and Wire Mesh is his first anthology - it's a book that brings a lifetime of observations on the minutiae of South African life to the fore.
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I climbed with great discomfort into the co-pilot’s seat of the little tin can four-seater Cessna, guided by Captain John Murphy who hopped into the pilot’s seat on my left, closed the door and enquired after my well-being. I explained that I had sustained an injury to my upper chest – probably a torn muscle, I suggested – in Jozi on the eve of my departure for Zambia.
Thursday, 26 August 2010 13:59
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Damn, I feel like a good dose of African bush after reading that. I loved the second last shot, the one of the booze cruiser in the mist - make'm use that one huge in the Big S...
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