Photographer: Karina Turok
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Books
De Kok, I.J. Familiar Ground. Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1988.
De Kok, I.J. Transfer. Snailpress, Cape Town, 1997.
De Kok, I.J, Terrestrial Things. Kwela/Snailpress, Cape Town, 2002.
De Kok, I.J. Seasonal Fires: Selected and New Poems. Seven Stories Press, NYC, 2006 and Umuzi, Ramdom House, South Africa, 2006.
De Kok, Ingrid. Mappe del corpo. A cura di Paola Splendore. Donzelli Poesia, Rome 2008.
Edited Books and Anthologies
De Kok and K. Press, Eds, and Introduction by I. de Kok: Spring is Rebellious: Albie Sachs and respondents on cultural freedom, Buchu Press, Cape Town, 1990.
De Kok, I.J. Advisory Editor, World Literature Today: South African Literature in Transition, 70(1), 1996.
I. de Kok, and G. Ferguson, Compilers, City in Words: Poems on Cape Town, David Philip Publishers, Cape Town, 2001.
Introductions, Chapters, Articles and Reviews
De Kok, I.J. Poetry and Society in South Africa. In Writers from South Africa: Culture, Politics and Literary Theory in South Africa Today. Northwestern University, Chicago, 53-61, 1989.
De Kok, I.J. A sort of difference. Pretexts: studies in Literature and Culture, 1(1), 73-78, 1989.
Fiske, I.J. Introduction in Changing by Degrees? Equity issues in South African tertiary education, UCT Press, 7-11, 1994.
Fiske, I.J. Audible voices political reordering in South Africa and the issues for cultural institutions. In Truth without Facts, Elias, W., Jones, D. & Normie, G., (Eds.) VUB University Press, Brussels, pp175-184, 1995.
De Kok, I.J. The Fault Lines Initiative: Inquiries into Truth and Reconciliation. In West Coast Line, 20 (30/2), 107-110, 1996.
De Kok, I.J. Standing in the Doorway: A Preface. In World Literature Today: South African Literature in Transition, 70(1), 5-8, 1996.
de Kok, I. Cracked Hierlooms. In Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa. Sarah Nuttall and Carli Coetzee, (Eds.) Oxford University Press, 1998.
De Kok, I.J. Review of “The Naked Song and other Stories” by Mandla Langa, World Literature Today, Vol 72, No 3, pp. 674-675, 1998.
Fiske, I.J. Review of “A Responsibility to Awe” by Rebecca Elson, Nature, Volume 414, No 6866, p. 845, December 2001.
De Kok, I.J. Review of “The Restless Supermarket” by Ivan Vladislavic, World Literature Today, Vol 76, No 1 (Winter), p. 125, 2002.
De Kok, I.J. Headnote: “Karen Press ‘Krotoa’s Story’” in Women Writing Africa: the Southern Region. The Women Writing Africa Project. Vol.1 (Eds) MJ Daimond et al, The Feminist Press, CUNY, 2003.
De Kok, I.J. Review article. “The languages of our past: Yvette Christianse, Unconfessed.” Southern African Journal of English Studies, 25 (1), pp. 128-132, 2008.
Forthcoming: De Kok, I.J. “Citadel and Web,” review of The Folly, in Marginal Spaces: Ivan Vladislavic, Gaylard, G, Wits Press, 2010.
Poetry in International Anthologies
De Kok. I.J. Poetry in From South Africa. (Eds) D. Bunn & J. Taylor, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1988.
Fiske, I.J. Poetry in We, her Children. (Ed) Jeremy Watts, Forgalet Systime a/s, Denmark, 1992.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry. (Eds) Stella & Frank Chipasula, Heinemann, Oxford, 1995.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in The Best American Poetry 1996. (Eds) Adrienne Rich and David Lehman, Scribner, New York, 1996.
De Kok, I. J. Poetry in The Modern World: Harper Collins World Reader. (Eds) Mary Ann Caws & Christopher Prendergast, Harper Collins, New York, 1996.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in The Lava of the Land. (Ed) Denis Hirson, Northwestern University Press, 1997.
De Kok. I.J. Poetry in Ten South African Poets. (Ed) Adam Schwartzman, Carcanet Press, Great Britain, 1999.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Running Towards Us. (Ed) Isabel Balseiro, Heinemann, USA, 2000.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Longman Anthology of Women’s Literature. (Ed) Mary DeShazer, Longman, 2001.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Crossings - Three Cape Town Poets. Devon Curriculum Services, Exeter, 2001.
De Kok, I.J. Poem in Women Writing Africa: the Southern Region. The Women Writing Africa Project. Vol.1 (Eds) MJ Daimond et al, The Feminist Press, CUNY, 2003.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Imagination in a Troubled Space: A South African Poetry Reader. (Eds) Michela Borzaga & Dorothea Steiner, Poetry Salzburg, University of Salzburg, 2004.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Freedom Spring: Ten Years On. (Eds) Suhayl Saadi & Catherine McInerney, Waverley Books, Glasgow, 2005.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Internationales literaturfestival, Berlin. Peter-Weiss-Stiftung fur Kunst und Politik w.V, Berlin, 2005.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule. (Eds) Ksenija Bilbija et al, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, USA 2005.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Halala Madiba. Nelson Mandela in Poetry. (Ed) Richard Bartlett, Aflame Books, United Kingdom, 2006.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Senior Poetry. (Eds) Peter McFarlane and Lisa Temple, Macmillan Education, Australia, 2006.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood. (Ed) Rishma Dunlop, Demeter Press, Canada 2007.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in The Seagull Reader: Poems. (Ed) Joseph Kelly, W.W. Norton and Company, new York, 2008.
In press. Three poems in GCSE Poetry Anthology and CD-ROM, Edexcel, London 2009.
Poetry in International Journals
De Kok, I.J. The American Poetry Review, 18 (4), 1989.
De, Kok. I.J. Poetry in Illuminations. The Rathasker Press, Summer 1990.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Boston Review, XVIII, (3&4), 1993.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Wasafiri 19, Summer 1994.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Triquarterly, 93, 1995.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in West Coast Line, 20 (30/2), 1996.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Illuminations. The Rathasker Press, Autumn 1998.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Atlanta Review: Africa, (V) 2, 1999.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in New Letters: Writing from the New South Africa, (65) 1, 1999.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Sulphur: a literary bi-annual of the whole art, (44), 1999.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Connect, (3) Arts International, 2001.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Columbia: a Journal of Literature and Art, (36), Columbia University, NY, 2002.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Poetry International, (7/8), San Diego State University Press, 2004.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Capilano Review, (2/46), Vancouver Canada, 2006.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Poetry Salzburg Review, No 13, Spring 2008.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Illuminations, The Rathasker Press, Summer 2009.
Poetry in Translation
De Kok, I.J. (Italian translation) in Origini, 12, 55, December 1990.
De Kok, I.J. (Japanese translation) in The Company of Women (Eds) Keiki Kusunose and Hiroyasu Yamada, Gendaikikakiushitsu Publishers, Tokyo, 1990.
De Kok, I.J. (French translation) in Poesie 97: Poesie: espace de l'autre, 67, Avril, 1997.
De Kok, I.J. (Dutch translation) in Tirade, 376, 4, October 1998.
De Kok, I.J. (French translation) in Poemes d’Afrique du Sud Ed Denis Hirson, Actes Sud/Editions UNESCO, Paris, 2001.
De Kok, I.J. (Italian translation) in Lo Straniero, 23, May 2002.
De Kok, I.J. (Swedish translation) in karavan, NR 3. 2004.
De Kok, I.J. (German translation) in de horen, 49, Jahrgang 3. Quartal 2004.
De Kok, I.J. (Dutch translation) in Hotel Parnassus: Poezie van dichters uit de hele wereld, 77-80. Amsterdam: Stichting Publishing International, 2005.
De Kok, I.J. (Turkish translation) in KITAP, 38-39, March 2006.
De Kok, I.J. (German translation) in Stechapfel. Gedichte von Frauen aus drei Jahrtausenden. (Ed.) Ulla Hahn, Reclam Bibliotek, Stuttgart, 2008.
Poetry in South African Anthologies
(a representative selection)
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Quabane Labantu. (Eds) H. Willemse, A. Coetzee, Taurus Press, Johannesburg, 1989.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Breaking the Silence: a Century of Women's Poetry. (Ed) Cecily Locket, Ad Donker, Pretoria, 1990.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Broken Strings: The Politics of Poetry in South Africa. (Eds) Stephen Finn and Rosemary Gray, Maskew Miller Longman, Cape Town, 1992.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in A New University Anthology of English Poetry. (Eds) P Kossick and M. Andersen, Oxford University Press, Johannesburg, 1993.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Seasons Come to Pass. (Eds) Es'kia Mphahlele & Helen Moffett, Oxford University Press, Johannesburg, 1995.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in The Heart in Exile. (Eds) I Tromp and L de Kock, Longman Penguin, Johannesburg, 1995.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Somewhere I have never travelled. (Ed) T Nicolay, Heinemann, Johannesburg, 1996.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Poetry for Pleasure. (Eds) Sadler and Hayllar, MacMillan Boleswa, Swaziland, 1996.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Worldscapes. (Ed) Robin Malan, Oxford University Press, Cape Town, 1997.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Ravan Twenty-Five Years (1972-1997): A Commemorative Volume of New Writing. (Ed) G.E. de Villiers, Ravan Press, Randburg, South Africa, 1997.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in A Writing Life: Celebrating Nadine Gordimer. (Ed) Andries Walter Oliphant, Penguin Books, Johannesburg, 1998.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in The Pick of Snailpress Poems. (Compiler) Robin Malan, David Philip Publishers, Cape Town, 2000.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Words in the House of Sound, District Six Museum, Cape Town, 2000.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in The New Century of South African Poetry, (Ed) Michael Chapman, AD Donker, 2002.
De Kok, I.J. Poem in It all begins: poems from postliberation South Africa. (Ed) Robert Berold, University of Natal Press, 2002.
De Kok, I.J. Extracts from two poems in Particulars. David Goldblatt, Goodman Gallery Editions, 2003.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Curiosity CLXXV: A Paper Cabinet. (Eds) Pippa Skotnes et al, LLAREC: Series in Visual History, Cape Town, 2004.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Johannesburg Circa Now: Photography and the City. Terry Kurgan and Jo Ractcliffe, Johannesburg, 2005.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Writing Light: a Collection of poems. (Eds) C du Toit and S. van Straaten, Nasou Via Afrika, Cape Town, 2006.
De Kok, I.J., Poetry in Lovely beyond any Singing: Landscapes in South African Writing. (Ed) Helen Moffett, Double Storey Books, Cape Town, 2006.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Birds in Words - a Twitchers’ Guide to South African Poetry. Compiled by Gus Ferguson and Tony Morphet, Umuzi, Cape Town, 2006.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in Voices from All Over. (Ed.) Rustum Kozain, Oxford University Press, Southern Africa, 2006.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in The Living Tradition. English as a Second Language. (Ed) Susan Joubert et al, Maskew Miller Longman, Cape Town, 2007.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in New Poetry Works. Compiler: Robin Malan, David Philip New Africa Book, Cape Town, 2007.
De Kok, I.J. Poetry in A to Z of African Writers: a guide to modern African writing in English. (Ed.) Robin Malan, Shuter and Shooter, 2009.
Local Literary Journals
Between 1977 and 2009 Ingrid's poems have been published in numerous South African literary journals, including Upstream, Sesame, Staffrider, Contrast, New Contrast, New Coin, Carapace. Occasionally poems have also appeared, translated into Afrikaans, in various South African Afrikaans newspapers.
Guest Editing
Judge on award giving boards:
| 1998: | Sanlam Literary Award for Poetry. |
| 1992: | Ingrid Jonker Prize for Poetry. |
| 1993: | Sydney Clouts Memorial Prize for Poetry. |
| 2002: | Impress poetry award, The English Society, University of Stellenbosch. |
| 2004: | Co- judged AIDS anthology “Nobody ever says Aids” with Professor N. Ndebele. |
| 2008: | Ingrid Jonker Prize for Poetry. |
| Guest editing: | |
| 1994/5: | Guest Poetry Editor for New Contrast Magazine. |
| 2002: | Guest editor of the June 2002 issue of the South African literary magazine Carapace. |
Musical Performances, Other Media
| 2001 & 2002: | Ingrid’s work was profiled in a video to accompany the teaching publication “Crossings: Three Cape Town Poets” and in “poem: imagine: film”, a video educational resource, both produced by Devon County Council, Devon Curriculum Services. |
| 2003: | Two poems were set to music by South African composer Philip Miller in a cycle called “The Z3 Song Cycle” and performed at the New Music Indaba at the Grahamstown Festival. |
| 2008: | A poem was set to music by American composer Chris Gable, and performed by the choir One Voice Mixed Chorus and the Minnesota Philharmonic. |
Other poems have been performed or set to dance or music by actors, choreographers and composers at various events in South Africa.
Ingrid’s poems have been read on South Africa, BBC, Australian and Canadian radio.
Work taught at universities
Ingrid's poetry has been or is being taught at numerous universities and colleges in Canada and the United States and elsewhere in the world. It is regularly taught at universities in South Africa and at matriculation level at schools.