E-mail us a comment on this writer. (Comments may be edited and used on this website.) About the author Ingrid de Kok is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Extra-Mural Studies at the University of Cape Town. She has published three earlier collections of poetry: Familiar Ground (1988); Transfer (1997); Terrestrial Things (2002). The U S edition of her new volume, Seasonal Fires, was published in May 2006. Poems by Ingrid de Kok appear in over 17 anthologies in South Africa and 14 or so international anthologies. She has been published widely in literary journals in South Africa and abroad, and her poems have been translated into eight other languages, most recently Turkish. She has been awarded the Carapace/Snailpress Poetry Prize (2000); Dalro Poetry Award (2002) and the Herman Charles Bosman Award for English Literature (2003). Books and anthologies edited by Ingrid de Kok include: Spring is Rebellious: Albie Sachs and respondents on cultural freedom (with K Press, 1990); World Literature Today: South African Literature in Transition (1996); City in Words: Poems on Cape Town (with Gus Ferguson, 2001) Title published by Umuzi Seasonal Fires On Ingrid de Kok’s work She captures, in the most delicate and individual terms, devastating phenomena. – Antjie Krog, poet and author Hers is a lyrical voice that has the capacity to ambush. She can twist a meaning suddenly and, in so doing, turn our understanding on its head. – Gillian Slovo, author and journalist In its sustained emotional charge, its intellectual integrity and technical consistency Terrestrial Things is, quite simply, one of the most-achieved single-author poetry collections in English in South Africa. – Jeremy Cronin, poet and Member of Parliament home   writers   books   contact   buy   rights all content © Umuzi, Random House Struik this website designed and maintained by Guanaco.co.za