Duncan Brown is Professor of English in the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape.Kobus Moolman is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of the Western Cape.Nkosinathi Sithole was, until recently, Associate Professor of English at the University of the Western Cape, until he resigned to focus full-time on his writing.

• ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 The Darkness of Covid-DeathChapter 2 ArchiteuthisChapter 3 SurvivorChapter 4 TheftChapter 5 It's when everything seems to be falling apartChapter 6 Notes by a Mother on Bipolar DisorderChapter 7 Notes from an Archive of the Body in MovementChapter 8 'Between Substance and Shadow': Investigations into the Cynanthropy of Gary the DogChapter 9 World Remaking: Visual Impairment and the Process of Somatic ReorientationChapter 10 One Body, Different MindsChapter 11 White FlightChapter 12 Lines Land SlantChapter 13 Finding the Words in Ten MovementsChapter 14 Lights Out!Chapter 15 Staring Death in the Eye: Revisiting the Tribulations and Joys of Hospitalisation in Post-apartheid South AfricaChapter 16 UnmadeChapter 17 For My FatherChapter 18 PhotographsChapter 19 Cancer Survivor around My Mother's NeckChapter 20 LegoChapter 21 It's Only a QuestionChapter 22 Alice, in the Waiting RoomContributors