In answer to a question posed by a young man Vredehoek, Cape Town, March 2012 It is like an artist … Read More

Today, Monday 12 March 2012, is my sixtieth birthday and I would be honoured if you would celebrate with me … Read More

Patricia Schonstein responds to the Infamous Questionnaire by Alex Smith Banjos, Shooting Tin Cans, Goya, Green Fingers, Frescos and Afrocarpus … Read More

As a teenager growing up in the former Rhodesia, I used to buy glass beads from a general-dealer in Manica … Read More

What was the origin of the idea for your novel, The Apothecary’s Daughter? And what were the influences, those you … Read More

My method of creating fictitious people has been long in growing. Some personages are entirely invented and bear no intentional … Read More

We, the people of South Africa, declare, for all our country and the world to hear, that this land of … Read More

Yesterday I gave a Masterclass to grade ten students at St Cyprian’s School in Cape Town who had studied my … Read More

The aerial bombing of cities began during World War 1 and grew to a vast scale during World War 2. … Read More

I first heard Glen Cowan’s A spring song when I was about 16 years old. He read it aloud at … Read More

 Over the years of our friendship, I’ve had the pleasure of hearing Marinella Garuti recount many of the extraordinary incidents … Read More

Deep-aging, the last phase of a long life, is the subject of seven of the poems and prose pieces in … Read More

When The Apothecary’s Daughter was first published in 2004, I received a call from a well-known bookseller. Her question was: … Read More

I’ve twice had the pleasure of hearing Gabeba Baderoon read aloud her poem, Fit. Once was at Hugh Hodge’s live … Read More

Every six weeks or so, I meet for lunch with David Friedland and Peter Horszowski. We’ve formalized these lunches by … Read More

The poems in Africa! My Africa! were written by Africans or about Africa, in the broadest sense, or with just … Read More

This morning I sent money to a friend living in Zimbabwe. Normally, I do this through Western Union at American … Read More

Africa! My Africa! includes five haunting poems by Mike Nicol who is best known as a journalist and acclaimed author … Read More

Many foot-paths and roads run through the anthology Africa! My Africa! They expose vast landscapes and horizons. Some of these … Read More

  Some years ago, I visited Tatamkhulu Afrika, seeking permission to include his poem Shaman in the anthology Africa! My … Read More

Africa! My Africa! is dedicated to Stephen Watson, South African poet and essayist extraordinaire 1954-2011, whose work I first met … Read More

I began compilation in 1997 with poems by Andries Oliphant, Robert Berold, Ingrid Jonker, Ruth Miller and some of Stephen … Read More

I’m raising core capital to launch this ship through the sale of an anthology of poems and prose pieces titled … Read More

This project was conceptualized during the mid-1980s at Rivendell Children’s Centre, a non-racial pre-school in Grahamstown, where teaching methods were … Read More

I have a dream to launch a sailing ship loaded with a cargo of children’s books, books that will: Empower … Read More