Africa! My Africa! includes five haunting poems by Mike Nicol who is best known as a journalist and acclaimed author … Read More
Three graves and a gate: Poems by Kobus Moolman, Modikwe Dikobe, Jane Fox and Uys Krige
Many foot-paths and roads run through the anthology Africa! My Africa! They expose vast landscapes and horizons. Some of these … Read More
Tatamkhulu Afrika
Some years ago, I visited Tatamkhulu Afrika, seeking permission to include his poem Shaman in the anthology Africa! My … Read More
Homage to Stephen Watson
Africa! My Africa! is dedicated to Stephen Watson, South African poet and essayist extraordinaire 1954-2011, whose work I first met … Read More
Compilation of Africa! My Africa! An anthology of poems
I began compilation in 1997 with poems by Andries Oliphant, Robert Berold, Ingrid Jonker, Ruth Miller and some of Stephen … Read More
Seed Readers: Come on board
I’m raising core capital to launch this ship through the sale of an anthology of poems and prose pieces titled … Read More
Seed Readers: The beginnings of my dream
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
I have a dream to launch a sailing ship loaded with a cargo of children’s books, books that will: Empower … Read More
Can you imagine a world without books?
How inconceivable is a world without books, to we who are surrounded, enchanted, comforted, thrilled, enthralled and enriched by them? How possible might it … Read More
A true story
One recent Saturday, mid-morning in Villiersdorp, I watched a group of inebriated farm workers gathered at the bottle store, having … Read More