INTERESTING FACTS

What is your current profession? How do juggle your work and your writing?

I teach creative writing in the department of English Studies at the University of the Western Cape.
How do I juggle my work and my writing? I don’t. Things fall to the ground around me. Mostly made up of my own projects. But if I can even manage to keep just one ball belonging to me in the air then I am satisfied.

With which person, living or dead, would you most like to have a conversation?

Admiral Horatio Nelson. Don’t ask me why. He was a childhood hero of mine.

What is the most compelling lesson you have learned thus far from the Covid-19 pandemic?
That I am not as mentally strong as I thought I was.

Which poets are you currently reading or which poets inspire you?
I am currently reading Emily Berry, Else Lasker-Schule, Carolyn Forche, Denise Levertov and Johannes Bobrowski.