Books
Familiar Ground. Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1988.
Transfer. Snailpress, Cape Town, 1997.
Terrestrial Things. Kwela/Snailpress, Cape Town, 2002.
Seasonal Fires: Selected and New Poems. Seven Stories Press, NYC, 2006 and Umuzi, Random House, South Africa, 2006.
Seasonal Fires. Kwela/Snailpress, Cape Town 2006.
Mappe del corpo. A cura di Paola Splendore. Donzelli Poesia, Rome 2008.
Other Signs. Kwela/Snailpress, Cape Town 2011.
Vetplant Fairies. (With Antjie Krog & Fiona Moodie), Umuzi, Cape Town 2022.
Unleaving. Fourthwall Books, Johannesburg 2024.

Poetry in journals
Ingrid’s poems have been published in numerous South African literary journals, including Izwi; Upstream; Sesame; Staffrider; Contrast; New Contrast; New Coin; Carapace; Stanzas.
Her poems have also appeared in international journals, including Brick; The American Poetry Review; Illuminations; Boston Review; Wasafiri; Triquarterly; West Coast Line; Atlanta Review: Africa; New Letters: Writing from the New South Africa; Sulphur; Connect; Cordite; Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art; Poetry International; Capilano Review; Poetry Salzburg Review; www.anglistica.unior.it; Il Tolomeo; Leggendaria; Origini; Lo Stranieri; karavan; Tirade; The Commons; The Times Literary Supplement.
Poetry in anthologies
Ingrid’s work has been published in many national and international anthologies, including the selection below:
From South Africa. (Eds) D. Bunn & J. Taylor, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1988.; We, her Children. (Ed) Jeremy Watts, Forgalet Systime a/s, Denmark, 1992; Heinemann Book of African Women’s Poetry. (Eds) Stella & Frank Chipasula, Heinemann, Oxford, 1995. The Best American Poetry 1996. (Eds) Adrienne Rich and David Lehman, Scribner, New York, 1996.The Modern World: Harper Collins World Reader. (Eds) Mary Ann Caws & Christopher Prendergast, Harper Collins, New York, 1996. The Lava of the Land. (Ed) Denis Hirson, Northwestern University Press, 1997. Ten South African Poets. (Ed) Adam Schwartzman, Carcanet Press, Great Britain, 1999. Running Towards Us. (Ed) Isabel Balseiro, Heinemann, USA, 2000. Longman Anthology of Women’s Literature. (Ed) Mary DeShazer, Longman, 2001. Crossings – Three Cape Town Poets. Devon Curriculum Services, Exeter, 2001. Women Writing Africa: the Southern Region. The Women Writing Africa Project. Vol.1 (Eds) MJ Daimond et al, The Feminist Press, CUNY, 2003. Imagination in a Troubled Space: A South African Poetry Reader. (Eds) Michela Borzaga & Dorothea Steiner, Poetry Salzburg, University of Salzburg, 2004. Freedom Spring: Ten Years On. (Eds) Suhayl Saadi & Catherine McInerney, Waverley Books, Glasgow, 2005. The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule. (Eds) Ksenija Bilbija et al, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, USA 2005. Halala Madiba. Nelson Mandela in Poetry. (Ed) Richard Bartlett, Aflame Books, United Kingdom, 2006. White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood. (Ed) Rishma Dunlop, Demeter Press, Canada 2007. The Seagull Reader: Poems. (Ed) Joseph Kelly, W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 2008. Ten Essential Poems, The Poetry Trust, 2012; Poetry in Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World, (Eds) Catherine Barnett and Tiphanie Yanique, Poetry Foundation, Tupelo Press, 2014. Edexel GCSE English Literature Poetry Anthology, Pearson Educational, 2014. The Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry. (Eds) Kwame Dawes et al, The African Poetry Book series, 2024.
Musical Performances, Art Collaborations & 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. |
| 2003 and 2014: | De Kok, I.J. Extracts from two poems in Particulars. David Goldblatt, Goodman Gallery Editions, 2003. Reprinted, Stedl 2014. |
| 2008 and 2013: | The poem “Women and children first” was set to music by American composer Chris Gable and performed by the choir One Voice, Mixed Chorus and the Minnesota Philharmonic. |
| 2009: | Conscious Object, an artwork by Angela Rose Voulgarelis, used de Kok poem “Women and Children first”. |
| 2020 – 2021: | “Unlocked” was a set of poems by South African poets or poets with SA associations, selected bi-weekly by Ingrid for the Daily Maverick during COVID. Browse below: |
| 2021: |
“Readings in the present tense” was a set of book reviews by South African writers, selected weekly by Ingrid for the Daily Maverick, during COVID: |
| 2022 and 2023: | Ingrid’s poem “Hardly a star” was set to music by South African composer Grant McClachlan and performed in Cape Town. |
| 2013: | Triptych of drawings: Collaboration between William Kentridge (drawing) and Ingrid de Kok (poem fragments). “For all we know, nothing is watching”.
Indian ink and computer printed texts on Universal Technological Dictionary (or Familiar Explanation of the terms) used in all Arts and Sciences by George Crabbe, 1826; collage on Velin Arches White. Each drawing 160 x 120 cm. https://journals.sfu.ca/capreview/index.php/capreview/article/view/1916/1916 |
