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“That love of Ingrid Jonker’s poetry goes on,” she explains. Fans of Ingrid’s poetry can celebrate her work with Simone and Ernesto when they host a free Ingrid Jonker evening at A Touch of Madness in ...
Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship, Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, searched for love. With men like Jack Cope and André Brink she found much love, but no home.
Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image reminiscent of Elizabeth Bishop, through the loneliness of separation, to ...
Rita Dove reads her poem Heart to Heart. 4. He Seemed to Me Equal to the Gods by Sappho (translated by Anne Carson in 2002) Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and ...
This bold new production explores the life, love, and poetry of celebrated South African literary icon Ingrid Jonker, based on the deeply personal love letters between her and André P Brink.
Hiding your love is doing a disservice to those around you. And so, for every stage of love, I have a poem to remind you of what a privilege it is to feel. For your situationship: “To the Woman Crying ...
Suzanne Somers passed away on Sunday after battling breast cancer, and just before she died, her husband of 46 years, Alan Hamel, gave her a poem he wrote.
Ingrid Andress ' new song, "Feel Like This," tells the story of finding true love after leaving a turbulent relationship, and the music video sets that optimistic story to screen in a real way ...
That means something," Coetzee said in an interview after hearing on Monday, 18 July 2022, that he'd won the 2022 Ingrid Jonker Prize for a debut poetry collection written in English.
Her fifth book of poems, “Obit” (2020), was named a New York Times Notable Book and a Time Must-Read. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches in Antioch University’s M.F.A. program.