• DOWN THE BAAKENS UNDERWORLD, incorporating "Tracks" and "Baakens"

DOWN THE BAAKENS UNDERWORLD, incorporating "Tracks" and "Baakens"

: Walter (B.)

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110pp., paperback, Botsotso, Johannesburg, 2024

ISBN: 9781776495238

 

A reprint of two of poet Brian Walter's collections: Tracks, first published in 1999, and Baakens, first published in 2000.

Brian Walter taught literature at the University of Fort Hare for 19 years. Later he worked in educational and community development projects in the Eastern Cape. He established the Bay Creative Writing Development Project in 2011, which facilitates poetry workshops and has published collections by the Helenvale Poets and the Salt Lake Poets. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Otherwise and Other Poems, Poems Packed for Travel and Allegories of the Everyday.. His debut collection, Tracks, won the 2000 Ingrid Jonker Prize. He was also awarded the 1999 Thomas Pringle Award for poetry published in journals. He lives in Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth).