Friday, 07 September 2007

A debut collection by Haidee Kruger



Haidee Kruger, whose work has appeared in Green Dragon, is due to have her debut poetry collection, Lush: poems for four voices, published later this month by Protea Books. The book will be launched at Poetry Africa in Durban in October and distributed via bookstores countrywide. The estimated retail price is R100.
Here is a poem from the collection:

three

today
the dog dug up
the last of
your sunflowers

pity

they were getting
to be

rather beautiful


Haidee Kruger is a lecturer, editor, writer and translator. Her fiction, poetry and cut-ups have been published online on sweet magazine and on LitNet. She has also been published in local and international literary magazines, including Literator, Englishes, Carapace, Fidelities and Green Dragon.

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