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Cape Town Book Fair Coda: Launch of Seasonal Fires
Ingrid de Kok’s book Seasonal Fires was launched this evening in Kalk Bay, inside the high-ceilinged bakery of the famed Olympia Cafe, as a kind of coda to the Cape Town Book Fair. The poet Karen Press introduced her: “Ingrid’s gaze is steady but also tender.”
Spotted in the crowd (in no particular order): Jeremy Cronin, John Samuel, Sue Clark, Amina Mama, Dominique le Roux, Mike Cope, Julia Martin, Helen Moffett, Annari van der Merwe, Hugh Hodge, Finuala Dowling, Ignatius Ticha, Tony Morphet, John Higgins, Neville Alexander and Gus Ferguson.
The first poem Ingrid read was in honor of someone absent, Luke Fiske: “When Children Leave” (p. 139).
Karen Press
…at the Olympia Cafe’s bakery, introducing Ingrid de Kok.
Tags: Amina Mama, Annari van der Merwe, Cape Town, Cape Town Book Fair, Cape Town International Book Fair, Dominique le Roux, Finuala Dowling, Gus Ferguson, Helen Moffett, Hugh Hodge, Ignatius Ticha, Ingrid de Kok, Jeremy Cronin, John Higgins, John Samuel, Julia Martin, Karen Press, Luke Fiske, Mike Cope, Neville Alexander, Poetry, Seasonal Fires, South African Literature, Sue Clark, The Margin, Tony Morphet, Umuzi
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