DIE PAPIE ROER EN EK WORD DIGTER, Ontvlugting, Rook en oker, Kantelson, met 'n inleiding deur Louise Viljoen

168pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2023

Afrikaans poet Ingrid Jonker was born in 1933 in the Northern Cape. Her debut volume of poetry, Ontvlugting, was published in 1956. In 1964, she received the APB Award for her second collection of poems, Rook en oker, published in 1963. She is recognised as one of the group of writers known as the “Sestigers”. She committed suicide in 1965. Her third volume of poetry, Kantelson, was published posthumously in 1966. Nelson Mandela read her poem, "Die kind (wat doodgeskiet is deur soldate by Nyanga)", in English translation, during his address at the opening of the first democratically elected Parliament in May 1994.