Personal & Profane
i want to sing
of all that was
but no longer is
of all that
never was but
could have been
~ Song of Hope
With fierce prose conjured from the depths of a mighty heart, Cecil Rajendra is recognised as one of the Third World’s most powerful voices, relentlessly championing the rights of the downtrodden and dispossessed.
Personal & Profane is a collection of over 100 poems, written over five decades by the globally-reknown poet who has twice been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.