Poetry

Watervlerk (Tafelberg, 2003) Afrikaans poetry

Fluisterklip (Lapa, 2008) Afrikaans poetry

Die dood is 'n mooi blou blom
(Pandora Boeke, 2009)
​Available as ebook on Amazon.


lovely blue flower


this morning trembling prayers:

summers irretrievably past
uninterrupted blue like thundery weather
above roof ridges, trees of similar feather
no denial of flight

death is a high C
clamorous woodpecker’s
fearless aria in the empty air
a spot of sun splintered by mirrors
crumbling evanescence

death is a lovely blue flower
of immediate wordlessness
the tongue dies instantly
and silence settles like a butterfly
on blue calyxes

death is a word gone astray
that mocks in a calyx of colours
in mirrors indefinably distorted
and you suspect
release is as far as loss can be

outside a flower lies

near the door birds frightened from trees
have lost their way. 

(translated by Charl J.F. Cilliers)

in a burning sea (Protea, 2014)

in a burning sea
​(Protea, 2014)
Anthology of contemporary Afrikaans poems in translation, edited by Marlise Joubert
Available online here

​Waar die oog van stil word
​(Protea Boekhuis, 2016)
Resensies hier 
en op die Nederlandse webwerf Meander.
Digstringe (vrae oor die digproses) op Versindaba.
Reading / voorlesing en bespreking op Vers en Klank.
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Prose

Tafel vir twee
​(Protea Boekhuis, 2009)
Afrikaans short stories
Review

 Simon Says (Colour and Quill, 2015)
English novel

As prelude to a piece of short fiction in A Blink of the Screen Terry Pratchett writes: "This was one of those letting-off-steam things: you underwent what the late Patrick Campbell used to call rigours of life, and instead of taking it out on somebody, you wrote it down..."

When Simon's attempts at finishing his next novel are constantly interrupted by inappropriate deliveries and unsolicited phone calls, he takes revenge. His motto? Don't mess with me, I'm a writer. As he keeps on fictionalising people who have angered him, he realises that his stories are more powerful than he thought - they are influencing reality. A neighbour dies; a woman loses her job; a car crashes. Will he stop before someone he loves is hurt or is it already too late? Can he unwrite reality? And where does his ex-neighbour's ugly dog fit into the story?
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Available on Kobo and on Amazon

Skrik op die lyf - Deborah Steinmair & Gerda Taljaard (ed.)
​(NB Uitgewers 2016)
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"A collection of horror stories about ghosts, hauntings, conjuring, poltergeists, wandering spirits, fortune tellers, stigmata, miracles, seers, séances, sangomas, tokoloshes, djinns, ghostly lights and all that's unexplained. Noted yarn spinners like Kerneels Breytenbach, Henning Pieterse, Jaco Jacobs, Marion Holm and Marié Heese will scare you out of your wits."

Kortverhaal ingesluit: "Stoor" - Ilse van Staden

Goeie dood wat saggies byt (Protea Boekhuis 2016)
Afrikaans novel
Review and another

Hartlam - Deborah Steinmair & Gerda Taljaard (ed.)
​(NB Uitgewers 2017)

"In hierdie bundel sal jy vergeefs soek na voorspelbaarheid. Want die liefde het vele gesigte, en nie almal is mooi nie.

Kerneels Breytenbach, Christine Barkhuizen Le-Roux, Erika Murray-Theron, Martin Botha, Helene de Kock, Keina Swart, Jaco Jacobs en vele meer skryf oor die liefde in al sy vele gedaantes: moederliefde, onvoorwaardelike liefde, gewelddadige liefde, verbode liefde, erotiese liefde, obsessiewe liefde, kalwerliefde, besitlike liefde, naasteliefde, onbeantwoorde liefde, waansinnige liefde, liefde tot die dood toe ...

Want die liefde verdra alles, maar die liefde het dikwels tande."

Kortverhaal ingesluit: "Koms van die blou fiets" - Ilse van Staden

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