RIETSPRUIT, gedigte

75pp., colour illus., paperback, Naledi, Gansbaai, 2025

ISBN: 9781067234690

A collection of poems that link childhood memories, family relationships, especially the father-son relationship, and landscape.

Writer, literary critic and historian Johann Lodewyk Marais is the author of 14 previous poetry collections, including Die somer is ’n dag oud (1985 Ingrid Jonker Prize) and Diorama (2012 South African Literature Award for Poetry). He is a research fellow at the University of Pretoria.