IN THESE MOUNTAINS, a collection of Cederberg writing, edited by Tanya Wilson and Hugh Corder

.127pp., illus., paperback, Pentrich Press, (Cape Town), 2024

ISBN: 9781037013393

Foreword by Tanya Wilson. Afterword by Hugh Corder. 

"One of South Africa's finest writers, Stephen Watson repeatedly returned - in real life and in words - to the Cederberg mountains in the Western Cape. Gathered together here for the first time, these poems, essays and diary entries reflect Watson's attempts to map out what he called the 'spiritual geography' of that remote and beautiful place. At their best, these meditations on nature and solitude take on an almost religious edge. In lyrical description and hard-edged contemplation, he evokes not only the stone, light, cloud and air of the Cederberg, but something more ungraspable behind them: the presence of the earth itself." Damon Galgut, South African novelist, winner of the 2021 Booker Prize

Poet, essayist and academic Stephen Watson (1954-2011) was Professor in the English Department and Director of the Centre for Creative Writing at the University of Cape Town. He published nine collections of poetry, three books of non-fiction, and edited a number of books, including A City Imagined.