DIE BLOEI VAN BLOMME

104pp., paperback, Naledi, Gansbaai, 2025

ISBN: 9781067234881

A new volume of poetry by Afrikaans poet and writer Pirow Bekker, published posthumously.

"Die digter doen hier finaal verslag van sy sterflikheid en stoflikheid. Dit bied aan hom ’n vooruitsig van bevryding – maar nie in ’n metafisiese of religieuse sin nie ... Hy verbeel hom hoedat sy as nadoods deur die wind versprei word na die natuurplekke wat hy so goed geken het." Daniel Hugo, Versindaba

Pirow Bekker (1935 -2025) published 12 volumes of poetry, as well as short stories, novels and radio dramas. He taught at several South African universities and was Head of the Documentation Centre at the HSRC from 1972-1979, before retiring to farm and focus on his writing.