Selected reviews of de Kok’s work
Susan Rich on Transfer
http://www.pw.org/mag/mag9809.htm
Simon Lewis on Terrestrial Things
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=175221048835719
Jeremy Cronin, “Do not be lulled by the ecstasy of pure song: A review of Terrestrial Things”. The Sunday Independent, 28 April 2002
Robert Pinsky on Seasonal Fires
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/28/AR2006092801409.html
Shaun de Waal on Seasonal Fires
http://www.chico.mweb.co.za/art/2007/2007feb/070202-poetry.html
Antjie Krog explores “Today I Do Not Love My Country”
http://nb.bookslive.co.za/blog/2011/08/24/antjie-krog-explores-today-i-do-not-love-my-country-by-ingrid-de-kok/
Kylie Thomas, “Speaking our silences”, Mail & Guardian
http://mg.co.za/article/2011-11-25-speaking-our-silences/
Finuala Dowling, “Under the sign of the poetic IQ”, SLiP
http://slipnet.co.za/view/event/under-the-sign-of-the-poetic-iq/
Karlien van der Schyff, “Other signs: The extraordinary beauty of most things quite ordinary“, LitNet
http://www.argief.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&cause_id=1270&news_id=110758
Die Burger, “Iets wat jy doen as niemand kyk nie”
http://www.dieburger.com/By/Nuus/Iets-wat-jy-doen-as-niemand-kyk-nie-20110819-2
Mark Heywood, “Poetry as antidote: A journey through grief, love and the transformative power of language”, Daily Maverick
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-01-20-poetry-as-antidote-a-journey-through-grief-love-and-the-transformative-power-of-language/
Finuala Dowling, “To read a collection this accomplished is to wonder anew at how poems are made”, Johannesburg Review of Books
https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/03/25/to-read-a-collection-this-accomplished-is-to-wonder-anew-at-how-poems-are-made-finuala-dowling-reviews-ingrid-de-koks-unleaving/
Beverley Rycroft, “Unleaving”, Stanzas Poetry Magazine, No 34, June/July 2025
Selected interviews
Interview by Susan Rich, “Home Truth” in US journal “Poets and Writers”, Vol 26, Issue 5, September/October 1998.
Interview with Susan Rich which now appears in the collection “South African Poets on Poetry: Interviews from New Coin 1992-2001”. Edited by Robert Berold, University of Natal Press, 2003.
Interview by Erica Kelley “Strangely tender: an interview with Ingrid de Kok” in the South African journal “scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa”, vol 8, no 1, 2003.
Interview by Paola Splendore, “La rappresentabilita del dolore” in the Italian journal Leggendaria 43, Febbraio 2004.
Interview by Dorothea Steiner, “Severities and Gusto: An Interview with Ingrid de Kok” in “Imagination in a Troubled Space: A South African Poetry Reader” Eds Michela Borzaga and Dorothea Steiner, Poetry Salzburg, Salzburg, 2004.
Interview by Jenny Penberthy, “Cartography of One’s Own Country” in The Capilano Review, Series 2, No 46, Spring 2005.
Interview by Eleanor Wachtel 2006.
http://www.cbc.ca/radioshows/THE_ARTS_TONIGHT/20061108.shtml
Interview: New Letters on the Air 2006.
http://www.newletters.org/onTheAir.asp