Photographer: Karina Turok
Readings |
POET |
National and international festivals attended
| Oct 1987: | “Writers from South Africa: culture, politics and literary activity and theory in South African today”, Northwestern University, USA. |
| 1989: | IDASA Writers’ Conference, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. |
| April 1997: | Les Temps de Livres Festival, Djibouti. |
| August 1997: |
“Language of Poetry: a multi-disciplinary conference”, Wits University. |
| Oct 1998: | “New spaces in South African Poetry”, Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands. |
| 1998 & 2002: | Poetry Africa, University of Natal, Durban. |
| 2000 & 2002: | Woordfees, University of Stellenbosch. |
| June 2002: | “Towards developing a National South African Literature”, National Arts Council National Writers’ Conference, Pretoria. |
| Oct 2003: | Chicago Book Festival, Chicago Public Library, USA. |
| Oct 2004: | Tradewinds Festival, Cape Town. |
| June 2005: | Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands. |
| Sept 2005: | Berlin Internationales literaturfestival, Germany. |
| Feb 2007: | Spier Poetry Festival, Stellenbosch. |
| Sept 2007 | ‘Gedigte in gesprek/poems in conversations’, Aardklop Festival,
Potchefstroom. |
| March 2008: | “BoekJol” Festival, University of Pretoria. |
| April 2009: | Cuirt International Festival of Literature, Galway, Ireland |
| Sept 2009: | Wits University Literary Festival: “Words on Water: South Africa
and India in · Conversation.” |
Public Lectures
| July 1995: | Keynote lecture at the Fourth International Conference
on Adult Education and the Arts,St Andrews, Scotland. Title: Memory and Representation: The Arts and Social Change in South Africa.” |
| Sept 1998: | Interstate Firehouse Cultural Centre Origins Lecture Series, Portland,
USA. Title: "Home Truths: Growing up in black and white." |
| Oct 2000: | University of Chicago Millennium Poetry Series. Title: "The Arts of Recovery: Writing in the transition." |
| March 2004: | The Capilano Review Koerner Lecture Series. Title: ‘"Verbs that move mountains": commitment and the lyric poem.’ |
Readings, talks and workshops
A selection since 2000:
| 2000/1: | University of Chicago; NYU; SUNY (Buffalo); Fordham, Brock, Concordia, McGill and Queens’ Universities; College of Charleston. |
| 2001: | “Generation without farewell, Wolfgang Borchert in Context”, Goethe Institute, Johannesburg. |
| 2003: | Northwestern and Fordham Universities. |
| 2004: | Indiana University; Fordham University; Dartmouth University, University of Massachusetts; Wake Forest University; Capilano College; Columbia University. |
| 2006: | Grand Valley University, Calvin College; New Letters Midwest Poetry Series, Missouri; University of British Columbia, Kelowna; Highline College; University of Maryland; The Open Society, Washington D.C; Queens’ University; McMaster University. |
| 2007: |
University of Salzburg, Leopoldskron Castle, hosted by Litertuurhaus and the Salzburg Global Seminar; Universita degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome. |
| 2009: | Queens’ University, Canada. |