Karen Press

Her poetry has appeared in the anthologies Siren Songs (ed. Nohra Moerat, BLAC, 1989), I Qabane Labantu (ed. Ampie Coetzee and Hein Willemse, Taurus, 1989), Breaking the Silence (ed. Cecily Lockett, Ad. Donker, 1991), Like a House on Fire (COSAW, 1994), The Heart in Exile (ed. Tromp and De Kock, Penguin, 1996), My African World (ed. Robin Malan, David Philip, 1996), Somewhere I Have Never Travelled (ed. Terrill Nicolay, Heinemann), The Lava of This Land (ed. Dennis Hirson, Triquarterly/Northwestern University Press, 1997), Running Towards Us: New Writing from South Africa (Heinemann USA, 2000) and It All Begins, (ed. Robert Berold, University of Natal Press, 2002); and in the magazines Staffrider, New Coin, Upstream, New Contrast, Stir, Botsotso, Slug, Boston Review, The Kalahari Review, Bleksem, Wasafiri, Poetry salvaged from Corey’s, New Letters, PN Review, West Coast Line and Illuminations.
Selected Bibliography

Emergency Declarations (found poems, co-produced with Ingrid de Kok, 1985)
This Winter Coming (Cinnamon Crocodile, 1986)
Bird Heart Stoning the Sea (Buchu Books, 1990)
History is the dispossession of the heart (Cinnamon Crocodile, 1992)
The Coffee Shop Poems (Snailpress, 1993)
Echo Location - a guide to Sea Point for residents and visitors (Gecko Books, 1998)
Home (Carcanet, 2000)
The Canary’s Songbook (Carcanet, 2005)

Karen Press translated Antjie Krog’s poem ‘Where I Become You’, published on PIW in March 2009.