Karen Press is a South African poet.

She was born in Cape Town

Cape Town

Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...

, and currently lives in Sea Point. She is a full-time writer and editor, having published eight collections of poetry, a film script, short stories, as well as educational material and textbooks in the fields of science, mathematics, English and economics.

In 1987 she co-founded the publishing collective Buchu Books.

Antjie Krog

Antjie Krog

Antjie Krog, born October 23, 1952 in Kroonstad, Orange Free State, South Africa, is a prominent South African poet, academic and writer. In 2004 she joined the Arts faculty of the University of the Western Cape.- Early life :...

 has described her poetry as "[presenting] a haunting museum constructed in [...] delicate tone and vivid poetic intelligence."

Poetry

• Emergency Declarations (found poems, co-produced with Ingrid de Kok
  Ingrid de Kok
  - Biography :Ingrid de Kok grew up in Stilfontein, a gold mining town in what was then the Western Transvaal. When she was 12 years old, her parents moved to Johannesburg. In 1977 she emigrated to Canada where she lived until returning to South Africa in 1984. She has one child, a son...
  
  , 1985)
• This Winter Coming (Cinnamon Crocodile, 1986)
• Bird Heart Stoning the Sea (Buchu Books, 1990)
• History is the dispossession of the heart (Cinnamon Crocodile, 1992)
• The Coffee Shop Poems (Snailpress, 1993)
• Echo Location - a guide to Sea Point for residents and visitors (Gecko Books, 1998)
• Home (Carcanet, 2000)
• The Little Museum of Working Life (Deep South, 2004)

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