Following my first collection Weather Eye, published in South Africa by Carapace, Salt in the UK and Jacana in South Africa have published my new collection A Fold in the Map. You can read more about the publications here, along with other poems, details of forthcoming readings and the odd snippet of news.
Readings - details here.
3 poems on Poéfrika
New poems forthcoming in New Contrast, Rising, Fin, Succour, The London Magazine and The Warwick Review.
Reviews for A Fold in the Map:
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 fleeting shadow shooting through
the water to some secret place;
the sudden kudu in the underbrush,
etched by your headlights, leaping clear.
And you paused 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.
Published in the latest edition of Seam.