Sole, Kelwyn
About Kelwyn Sole
Biography (Poetry International)
Biography (The Poetry Archive)
Biography (University of Capetown)
Reviews
Kozain, Rustum. "Kelwyn Sole: Walking, Falling." The Johannesburg Review of Books, 3 Jul. 2017
Kozain, Rustan. “Mirror and Water Gazing/Heartlands/Nightrider: Selected Poems.” English Academy Review, vol. 20, 2003
August, Tyrone. “Kelwyn Sole, The Blood of our Silence.” Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, 1990
Interviews
D'Arcy, Elizabeth. "'The Joy of Happenstance!' An Interview with the Poet, Kelwyn Sole." Current Writing, vol. 31, no. 1, 2019
"Poéfrika Interview with Kelwyn Sole." Poéfrika, 8 May 2018
“Kelwyn Sole: Dreaming the Everyday.” The Dye Hard Interviews, 1 Jun. 2012
Lewis, Simon. "Interview with Kelwyn Sole." Wasafiri, vol. 18, no. 38, 2008
Robins, Roy. "Interview with Kelwyn Sole." New Contrast, vol. 34, no. 1, 2006
Berold, Robert. "New Coin Poetry - Interview: Kelwyn Sole." New Coin Poetry, vol. 30, no. 1, 1994
Brown, Duncan, and Bruno Van Dyk. “Kelwyn Sole.” Exchanges: South African Writing in Transition, 1991
Criticism
Horn, Peter. "'Where We Stride above the Fading, Insistent Mutter of the Dead': Kelwyn Sole's Projections in the Past Tense." At the Margin of One/Many Languages, 2014
Dunton, Chris. “From Mqhayi to Sole: Four Poems on the Sinking of the Troopship Mendi.” African Literatures and Beyond: A Florilegium, Davis and Bernth (eds.), 2013
Higgins, John. "The Sole Measure of Poetic Value: A Response to Kelwyn Sole." Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, 2003
Cornwell, G. "Map-Making in the Missionary Position : A Response to Kelwyn Sole." Current Writing, vol. 6, no. 2, Oct. 1994
Hofmeyer, Isabel. "Kelwyn Sole, Postcolonialism, and the Challenge of the Local." Current Writing, vol. 6, no. 2, 1994
Nkosi, L. "Sole and the Symptoms of Nervous Breakdown." Current Writing, vol. 6 no. 2, 1994
Attwell, David. “Resisting Power: A Reply to Kelwyn Sole and Isobel Hofmeyr.” Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 3, no. 1–2, 1991
Works
Poetry Collections
Walking, Falling (2017)
Absent Tongues (2012)
Land Dreaming (2006)
Mirror and Water Gazing (2001)
Love That is Night (1998)
Projections in the Past Tense (1992)
The Blood of our Silence (1988)
Essays
“‘Here It Is Safe to Assume Nothing at All’: Aesthetics and the Impasse of South African Poetry Criticism.” Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa, vol. 21, no. 2, 2016
“‘Inside Our Bodies / the Terrible Words Must Burn’: Editing a New Selection of South African Poetry.” New Coin Poetry, vol. 49, no. 1, 2013
“‘I Have Learned to Hear More Acutely’: Aesthetics, Agency and the Reader in Contemporary South African Poetry.” Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics, vol. 21–22, 2009
“The Tyranny of Already Existing Interpretations.” New Formations, vol. 51, 2003
“Political Fiction, Representation and the Canon: The Case of Mtutuzeli Matshoba.” English in Africa, vol. 28, no. 2, 2001
“The Witness of Poetry: Economic Calculation, Civil Society and the Limits of Everyday Experience in a Liberated South Africa.” New Formations, vol. 45, 2001
“Sipho Sepamla.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: South African Writers, vol. 225, Scanlon (ed.), 2000
“Bird Hearts Taking Wing: Trends in Contemporary South African Poetry Written in English.” World Literature Today, vol. 70, no. 1, 1996
“Democratising Culture and Literature in a ‘New South Africa’: Organisation and Theory.” Current Writing, vol. 6, no. 2, 1994
“Fear and Loathing in the Academy.” Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, vol. 6, no. 2, 1994
“‘This Time Set Again’: The Temporal and Political Conceptions of Serote’s To Every Birth Its Blood.” English in Africa, vol. 18, no. 1, 1991
“The Days of Power: Depictions of Politics and Community in Four Recent South African Novels.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 19, no. 1, 1988
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Kelwyn Sole at Poetry Africa 2017. YouTube, 2 Feb. 2018
Kelwyn Sole Reads His Poem "Seafront". The Poetry Archive, 2015
Kelwyn Sole Reads His Poem "I Want What Comes After". The Poetry Archive, 2012
Kelwyn Sole Reads His Poem "The Burning". The Poetry Archive, 1998
Kelwyn Sole Reads His Poem "Housing Targets". The Poetry Archive, 1998