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English editions

2003 – 2018

Four collections, kept as they sit on the page. Fixed-layout EPUB. No shipping required.

Cover of If Only

2003

If Only

A debut collection shaped by youth, inheritance, grief and love — an early fire learning how to speak from the wound.

R43 · English

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Cover of In Time

2009

In Time

A photographic portrait of becoming, memory and movement, measuring the distance between witness and return.

R43 · English

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Cover of Flowers Of A Broken Smile

2016

Flowers Of A Broken Smile

An extended riff on love, life and the feminine, where tenderness and survival learn to share the same language.

R43 · English

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Cover of Oncoming Traffic

2018

Oncoming Traffic

A book of movement, collision and witness — poems approaching the reader with the pressure of the road.

R43 · English

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Translated editions

Flowers Of A Broken Smile, carried into three more home languages.

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The Complete Collection

All seven editions. Four English collections, and Flowers of a Broken Smile in three more home languages.

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Flowers, In Every Language

Flowers of a Broken Smile in English, Afrikaans, Sesotho sa Leboa and isiXhosa.

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