INTIMATE LIGHTNING, Sydney Clouts: poet

285pp., illus., paperback, Unisa Press, Reprint, Pretoria, (2018) 2019

ISBN: 9781868889778

The life and work of South African poet Sydney Clouts (1926-1982). His single published volume, "One Life" (1966), won the Ingrid Jonker Prize in 1966 and the Olive Schreiner Prize for poetry in 1968. Clouts was born in Cape Town. He emigrated to the UK in 1961 where he worked as a librarian.

Poet, author and academic Dan Wylie is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Literary Studies at Rhodes University. He is the editor of Seahorn Messiah, Sydney Clouts, the poems (2019). His other publications include Raven Games, new and selected poems and Death and Compassion, the elephant in South African literature. His poetry collection, The Road Out (1996), won the 1998 Ingrid Jonker and Olive Schreiner prizes.