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

Events at the Franschhoek Literary Festival, SA, Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 May.

Guest poet at Off the Wall, at A Touch of Madness, Cape Town. Details here.

Interview on LitNet, May 2013

Debris in The Island Review

British Council Writers

Some Reviews

The Tempest Prognosticator:

'Dixon's Strange New World'

'Rich Reward for Readers'

A Fold in the Map:

The Mail & Guardian

The Financial Times

 

 

Acacia Karroo

Soetdoring, Sweet Thorn:                     
homecoming tree.
Survivor. Tender-fronded greenstem;
black-barked, ghost-spined armoury.
Yellow-blossomed after-rainfall bush
to barricading thorn brush,
a stubborn emblem for my family.