STEIERWERK

79pp., paperback, Human & Rousseau, Cape Town, 2026

ISBN: 9780798186346

This collection of 71 sonnets includes poems about travel and love, and conversations with figures as diverse as NP van Wyk Louw, Wilma Stockenström, William Shakespeare, TS Eliot, John Keats, Mahler, Bizet, Goya and Dürer. They are also a moving exploration of decay: of one’s own body, art and country.

“Steierwerk is for me, together with Antjie Krog’s Plunder, one of the poetic highlights of the past four years.” Henning Pieterse

Johan Myburg (b. 1957) is the author of the poetry collections Kontrafak (Eugène Marais Prize), Kamermusiek, Uittogboek (Hertzog Prize) and Narreskip.