Publisher: Deep South, South Africa
Poetry 99 presents the best of a week-long series of live readings by South African poets that took place in Grahamstown in 1999. Even in their written form, many South African poems carry the intonations of the poet’s voice, but seeing and hearing poets reading their own work has a particular vitality. Poetry 99 is a valuable resource for poets, readers, and teachers of poetry. This book is the text of the video, now available on YouTube: see Deep South Poetry99
£15.00
About the editors
Robert Berold has published four collections of poetry and nine other books, which include a memoir, a biography, and (as editor) a rural skills handbook, a book of interviews with poets, and an anthology of South African poetry. From 1989 to 1999 he edited the poetry journal New Coin. He coordinated the MA in Creative Writing at Rhodes University from its inception in 2011 until 2015. He has edited over 50 collections by South African poets, many of them published by his Deep South press.