Ingrid Jonker's fine poetry is always, unfortunately, going to be overshadowed by the fact of her death at age 31 in 1965. Mention her name and her suicide by drowning comes to mind.

Chris Chameleon has once again set Ingrid Jonker's poems to music in his new album 'As Jy Weer Skryf', which follows on from the success of 'Ek Herhaal Jou' in 2005. 'As Jy Weer Skryf' has a much ...

Ingrid Jonker: A poet’s life. Petrovna Metelerkamp (Hemel & See, R260) “She was both a poet and a South African. She was both an Afrikaner and an African. She was both an artist and a human being.

Sit back, relax, and let Dutch songbird Niki Romijn's calming and peaceful Roos van Jou Mond's celebration of beloved Ingrid Jonker transport you on a nostalgic journey.

Black Butterflies follows the turbulent life of poet Ingrid Jonker, ... Van Houten as teh tragic Jonker, whose poetry is inscribed in South Africa’s ... the one great love of Ingrid’s life.

Moving from the raunchy acid-face love of Boo! to the quietly considered despair of Ingrid Jonker's poetry is quite a leap for Chris Chameleon, writes Nadine Botha.

When Oscar-nominated director Paula van der Oest came on board, the title of the movie was changed from Smoke and Ochre (Rook en Oker), the title of Jonker’s award-winning 1963 collection of ...

The Amabookabooka guest this episode is poet Karin Schimke, winner of the prestigious Ingrid Jonker Prize for her debut collection of poetry, Bare & Breaking. By JONATHAN ANCER.

“My mom always sang lullabies to me when I was small,” Simone Garcia Marquez, the daughter of the late poet, Ingrid Jonker recalls. That’s why she decided that setting her words to music would be the ...

Afrikaans music lovers used to popular singer Chris Chameleon’s melodious adoptions of renowned South African writer Ingrid Jonker’s poems will have to stand strong: the latest renditions of these ...

The uncompromising power of Ingrid Jonker’s poetry runs like a pulsing vein through “Black Butterflies,” a 1960s-set drama whose several strong points include the angry intensity of Carice ...

The uncompromising power of Ingrid Jonker’s poetry runs like a pulsing vein through “Black Butterflies,” a 1960s-set drama whose several strong points include the angry intensity of Carice ...