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Critical responses to Rustum Kozain’s This Carting Life (2005) foreground the poet’s archaeologies, geographies and landscapes to rehearse familiar land-based narratives regarding South Africa’s history of dispossession and disavowal. In this way, they render proverbially “dark” the ways in which the collection’s water and water-related conceptual grid animates affective and conceptual potentialities set resistantly adjacent to terrestrially mediated genealogies of exploitation and suffering. By contrast, this essay undertakes a three-part analysis of This Carting Life’s poetic hydrography. It first investigates the way water mediates Kozain’s apprehension of the interplay between local and global economies of extraction, displacement and dispossession. It then examines how his presentation of pluvial and nival temporalities challenges time scales conventionally desired by the nation-state. Finally, it considers the ways in which Kozain’s deployment of an aquatic bestiary for metaphoric, allegorical and material use animates more-than-human alternatives to human-centred economic, historical, ontological, and political assumptions. By reading This Carting Life “for water,” the essay reframes a collection of poetry located within the arguably hydrophasic context of the postcolonial South as an important literary precedent to a globally emergent hydrocommons and its concerns with relational ethics both within and beyond the limits of the human.

Dark Water: Rustum Kozain’s This Carting Life (2005)