My new collection The Tempest Prognosticator is just out from Salt in the UK and will be published in South Africa later this year by Random Umuzi. 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 - details here.
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
Startling Point
You think me unsurprising. Wait –
I have a thing or two to share. I’ll never
be the river in full spate, the raging fire,
but, look, I have my moments too:
fish-leap, a flash of juggled silver
barely seen before the splash;
a scumbled shadow shooting through
the water to some secret place;
the sudden kudu in the underbrush,
etched by your headlights, leaping clear.
And you pause at the wheel, aware:
at first just awed by muscled grace,
but then, the mind’s eye’s shattered glass,
the heart’s revealing race, the taste of fear.
From The Tempest Prognosticator.
This poem appeared in The Financial Times on 16 July 2011.