My new collection The Tempest Prognosticator is published by Salt in the UK and Random Umuzi in South Africa. My earlier collection A Fold in the Map is published by Salt in the UK and Jacana in South Africa. You can read more about these books and other publications here, along with poems, details of forthcoming readings and the odd snippet of news.
Readings and workshops coming up - details here.
Julian Sands on BBC Radio 4 and audio of 'Toktokkie' and 'valentine' at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Video of Women for Women International's Women's Day reading: Join Me on the Bridge, March 2011
Video of Nelson Mandela Day at the British Museum, 18 July 2010.
Photos from Verbatim Book Store reading, Stellenbosch, Magma 46 launch and news of a visit to Merchant Taylors' School.
Critical Perspective by Alex Pryce on British Council Contemporary Writers Site.
New work in Magma, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Staple's film issue, and 'The Buried Butterfly' on Poetry Daily.
Reviews for A Fold in the Map:
The Mail & Guardian (SA)
The Times - one of Elaine Feinstein's books of the year
42 Somerset Street
In our wayward garden
wild and lovely, weeds and roses
rambling, laughter looped
around the branches and the boles,
we, legs lime-tree scratched
and fingertips dark mulberried,
moved light among the earth and leafmould scent,
the taste of sourgrass tanged against the tongue.
Hiding, seeking
never lost
for words, for games,
adult-echoing, we played
our wars, built cities, captained ships,
learned to trade and barter
snailshells, rosehips, old pine cones
for pink quartz stones
and old blue chips
of lost ancestral china.
Mothers calling into dusk
can never hold such sway
as that sweet smell of fresh-cut grass
or lighted kitchen window
as our fragrant heaped-up castles.
Published in Weather Eye (Carapace Poets, 2001).