Klara du Plessis

Klara du Plessis is a South African-Canadian poet, who writes in both English and Afrikaans.[1] Her debut poetry collection Ekke won the Pat Lowther Award,[2] and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award,[3] in 2019. Her second collection, Hell Light Flesh, was released in 2020.

Du Plessis was born in Montreal, but raised predominantly in Bloemfontein, South Africa.[4] She is currently a graduate student at Montreal's Concordia University. Since 2018, she has been developing Deep Curation, a practice of poetry reading organization that places poets' works in deliberate thematic and conceptual dialogue in performance.

References

  1. ^ "An interview with Klara du Plessis". Open Book, July 13, 2018.
  2. ^ "Tess Liem, Stevie Howell win 2019 Book Awards for poetry". Quill & Quire, June 10, 2019.
  3. ^ "League of Canadian Poets Announces 2014 Prize Shortlists & Spoken Word Winner!". Open Book Toronto, April 1, 2014.
  4. ^ "Introducing: Writing in English from a Multilingual Perspective". The Town Crier, October 3, 2016.


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